I have tried and looked everywhere and have no solution. I tried changing settings to delete sent messages on the webmail, I have tried changing to pop settings, etc. with no luck. It seems as soon as the device syncs with the webmail the duplicate sent message appears. I also note that as soon as I move a sent message to another mail folder it duplicates there as well.
I have come to the conclusion that the problem is because I use my At&T dsl email which uses yahoo mail. Yahoo doesn't seem to sync well with android OS - I have seen others who complain about this relationship as well.