All mailboxes gone

Since yesterday my main POP mailbox is gone. Rebuild is not working, the spinner keeps spinning forever like it's getting new mail in, Junk doesn't show anything either.
I try to quit, wait 10 to 20 minutes, do a force quit, start again, same empty folders, spinner spinning like there's no tomorrow.
Once every two or three times, I can get to see the messages for the first 3 months of the year (I keep mails in the inbox for a year and then move them to another folder, I really don't get that much email on this POP account) and then when I select the inbox folder, they disappear and the spinner starts spinning as though it's downloading Paris Hilton's fanmail for the next 20 minutes or so.
Please advise.
Macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

What does “Rebuild is not working” mean?
Means I tried rebuilding the inbox folder a few times, let it working aside while I did other things, came back to Mail and the rebuild option was available again for the folder but nothing had changed - ie, the spinner by the inbox label kept spinning as it were either downloading new email or working on the rebuild.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just
permissions), as described here:
Th
e Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all
about?
Ok, I think this might have pulled the trick. The messages seem to be there, anyway. I'll be 100% sure when I get back from work as I've totally put my morning to waste with this!
Strangely enough, I haven't had an abrupt shutdown since the last firmware update when the random shutdowns altogether stopped. How could my permissions go berzerk on me like that from one day to another?
Thanks for the help, btw.
Macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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