10.8.1 - Major Issue - All Mail in "Trash" Gone after Update

ML 10.8 started off for me (and many others) with a few bugs and a major battery issue and now with the 10.8.1 update comes the biggest nail in the coffin with all of my email in the "Trash" folder completely gone.
I need some help from some experts here.
99% of the mail in my "Trash" is gone. I only have email dating back to August 22, 2012 (which is the day I upgraded from 10.8 -> 10.8.1)
I'm using 3 POP accounts and 1 IMAP account.
All accounts and their appropriate "Trash" folders had hundreds of deleted items and the IMAP account had thousands.
I noticed this today while doing a search for somthing in the "Trash"
I'm not sure what to do here, cannot contact AppleCare at the moment as they are closed.
Help...

I get an error "No valid mbox files were found" on both
Jesus
Re-adding won't help me for this account - my IMAP server doesn't have any items in the Deleted Messages folder on the server-side.
Here's where I'm confused - if I receive email in my Inbox, I delete certain items, they end up in my Trash (have been there prior to 10.8.1) and now they're just gone. I've made sure to specify that Mail doesn't permanently delete items on the Server, leaves them there, etc. And since I can remember all items I manually Delete, just go into the "Trash"
Thoughts?

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