Accidentally deleted Mailbox - How to Recover?

I decided to get organized today and created a mailbox called "Friends" and then created submailboxes with the names of my friends. Then I filed their messages from the Inbox to their respective submailboxes.
Once that was finished, I decided to make the mailbox name all upper case, so I selected "Rename Mailbox". I retyped "FRIENDS" and got a dialog box saying I couldn't rename this mailbox (presumably because no characters were changed, only characteristics?) Next thing you know, I see there are two mailboxes: "Friends" (the old one) and "FRIENDS", the new one. I checked and each mailbox had all the submailboxes intact (with all their messages inside). So, I deleted "Friends" since they were obviously duplicates. To my surprise, "Friends" went away, leaving "FRIENDS", only all the submailboxes and their contents were missing!
How do I recover them? It was a couple of hours of work and I don't know what irreplaceable information has been lost.
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

If you cannot find the mailboxes in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/ (almost certainly they’re no longer there), and the messages are not on the server, and you don’t have a backup, your only option in the case of Mail 1.x is to try to salvage as many deleted mbox files as possible with a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage (the files to be recovered would be different in the case of Mail 2.x). Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.

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