Mail not Diplaying Messages :-(

I have several account on the mail app, unfotunately on of the accounts is not displaying the messages in the preview pane, even though it recongnizes them in the account list with the number of message that have not been read.
I tried removing the plist for this mbox, but still no dice. I would prefer if the solution would not involve a reinstaltion since I have woeful amounts of rules set up to handle a large bulk of our mail.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Hi Ben. You're welcome.
for some reason my inbox was turned into a
folder instead of a .mbox file.
Well, this is the kind of things that I was looking for when I asked you to post the contents of the account folders. Note, however, that it should still be a folder, not a file, even after adding the .mbox extension.
It looks like you've tried to fix the problem without quitting Mail first, and have created other issues in the process, or maybe there is something else going on. It would have been a better idea to just provide the information I was asking for...
Now the issues is that mail has started showing its
famous message of "take this account online..." and
of course it is online.
If this is happening to one mailbox only, and it's the result of you having been tinkering with the contents of the Mail folder, rebuilding the mailbox probably will fix it, i.e. select the mailbox in Mail and do Mailbox > Rebuild.
You should consider making a backup copy of the entire Mail folder first, and keep it until all the issues have been sorted out. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example.
any help would be greatly appreciated and would call
for a round of drinks when I head out to Spain!
I take your word for it...

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