Archive and Install - Getting Mailboxes Back

I was forced into re-installing Tiger due to the freezing issues with Leopard. The only option I had was "Archive and Install". I could not preserve user settings (it was greyed out). What is the best way to get my stuff back. In particular Mailboxed. I do see that all my Previous Stuff was put into a "Previous Folder". How do I get my mailboxes and my saved mail back into the mail program?

I'm afraid yes... I went to Disk Utility - File - New - Disk Image from folder. And then chose the folder with my user name. It goes ahead and creates the image file - which is 56kb btw.
The weird thing is that the Previous System file is 30gb. So, there is no way that my stuff is deleted. Just don't know how to get to it.
Any ideas?

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    0x00D35CE4 0x0035A994 0x0003F94C 0x000B05D4
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    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(211.1)@0xd0a000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x552000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.6.0)@0xc8e000
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    9E17
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    Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:36:17 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_PPC
    System model name: PowerBook6,2
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    Hey there good mac people,
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    Did the folks or this person at the "genius bar" also recommend that you create or update your backup before performing an Archive & Install?
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