[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache files

[Mike Abbott]

I see these errors more often than I'd like from Dovecot-1.1.2 on Mac  
OS X 10.5.4 (names and numbers elided):

Corrupted index cache file %s: Corrupted virtual size for uid=%d: %d ! 
= %d
Corrupted index cache file %s: Broken virtual size for mail UID %d
Corrupted index cache file %s: used_file_size too large
How bad are these?  What should I look for to find out why they happen?

Other details:
File system is HFS+
Mail store is maildir
Hardware is Intel (Mac Pro)

Thanks.