10.6.2 Update Mail import hangs

I recently updated to 10.6.2. When I opened Mail it did the usual "Welcome to Mail... to use the new features in Mail, your existing Mail messages need to be imported into the new version the first time you use Mail." This is usually no problem, but for some reason, this time around it hangs at Message 2905 and will not continue... I've left it for an hour and it just keeps increasing the time remaining to complete. I don't know what to do, there is no option to skip message and I cannot use Mail until it completes... canceling just quits Mail and it starts all over when I re-open. Anyone else had this issue?

I noticed that it said what mailbox it was currently importing at the top. The Mailbox "2010" was where it obviously had a corrupted message and it hung at the same spot every time. I searched inside the mail folder for it and found the mailbox, deleted it, and it was successful this time around. Luckily, it was a small mailbox with nothing I necessarily needed in it. I could have gone thru each message one at a time to find the offending message if I had to, it would be nice if there is a hang Apple would ask if you want to skip importing the offending message.

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