3,000 emails just disappeared from Mail: help!

I installed 10.6.1 a week ago on my MacBook Pro (2.5 Ghz Intel Core Duo). There's 50gig of hard drive space free.
I looked in the Sent section yesterday and about 50 emails were logged as sent Today. Most of these were in fact written maybe 2-3 years ago. Weird -- and frustrating. (Last year under Leopard I noticed that a big chunk of sent emails had the wrong year: they all had different months and days but the year was 2008 instead of say 2006 or 2007. I did nothing about it at the time as I thought I could live with this.)
There were about 3,500 emails in the Sent section yesterday. Today there are just 300!
I went on to my me.com account to find that the title of the web page reads "MobileMe Mail - 3529 messages, 25 unread" -- and I can only seem to view these 25.
What can I do to get Mail working again properly?
Thanks! Chris

An addition to my above post... [I'm referring to the Mail 4.1 application by the way]
The only emails that remain in my Sent folder are the ones I sent Today, plus 1 from August (which I think is one which always used to appear FIRST when I switch to the Sent folder before it displayed the 3,500 other ones which were sent before and after it. (It had a few attachments.) Then a set of emails from Feb 6, 2008 to April 18 2008. A total, as I said, of about 350 emails. The other 3,000 have now disappeared but are still on the Mail application at me.com.
Both dates are interesting: I started using Mail around Feb 6 2008. Before that I sent maybe 2,000 emails via the web-based mail program at mac.com.
Around April 18 2008 I bought a new MacBook Pro, and used Apple's migration software to move all the applications and data from my old laptop to my new laptop before I started using the new laptop.
Hope all that helps!
Chris

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