Backed up mail files but lost messages when changing computers

I just switched computers, from one running OS X 10.3.9 to one running OSX 10.4.9.
On my old computer I created different folders in which I stored my emails. The Help on Mail said that to backup I had to save the files on
Home > Library > Mail
Home > Library > Application Support > Address Book
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist
I did that and moved these files into the corresponding location in the new computer. I can see all the folders, but they are all empty. Have I lost my saved emails forever?

The folders in the Mail application are empty. So the folders transferred, but the emails I had stored in them didn´t.
On the backups I made I can see:
- In the Home>Library>Mail folder:
1- a file named DefaultCounts
2- a file named LSMMap
3- a file named LSMMap2
4- a file named MessageSorting.plist
5- a file named MessageSorting.plist.backup
6- a file named Signatures.plist
7- a folder named Mailboxes with a folder named like each of the folders I had created in Mail (which are all empty), and a folder named like each of the folders I had created in Mail, next to the folder name is the extension .mbox. And inside each one of these are 4 files named content_index, Info.plist, mbox, tableofcontents
8- a folder named POPmypopaccountname which contains folders named Inbox.mbox, Delete Messages.mbox, Drafts.mbox, Sent Messages.mbox. Each one of these has 4 files named content_index, Info.plist, mbox, tableofcontents. This folder also has a file named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded

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