Additional folder "Messages" after mail import

Hi, I imported the mail from an old system (10.6) into a 10.8 system via "Import Mailboxes ..." in Mail.app.
I choose "Apple Mail" in the "Import data from:" window and selected the main directory where all the mailboxes and their messages sat.
After a couple of hours, after importing, the structure seemed to be replicated on the newer system,
except that every mail folder containing messages also contains a folder "Messages" showing exactly the same messages
as in the folder above.
Since that's many thousands of messages in hundreds of folders deleting the respective Messages-folder is not feasible.
How can I solve this?
Thanks, Michael.

Intermediate answer: The app launched correctly and the import process has started.
It is taking ages though. Over 3 hours for around 30K messages.
The message count sometimes gets stuck for 20-30 minutes or so and then starts counting again...
There are ~5K messages left to be imported. I'll let you know if it goes ok.
Stay tuned for the next and hopefully last episode.
Cheers,
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