Can't import all Entourage emails into Mail

Hello all,
So I decided to finally switch over to Leopard. I thought about doing an archive/install or delete/install, but then figured I would first just try the upgrade to see how it went (especially because I have tons of software that the disks are back in America [I live in China] and could not reinstall them if I had to, etc)...
I did a full cloneable back-up with Super-Duper, then upgraded, and everything seemed OK. I decided to switch over to Mail.app (I used to use it like 2 years ago, then had wanted to try Entourage, but lately the simplicity of Mail.app beckoned again).
So I started to import my mail from Entourage. Everything went in pretty much fine, except for the SENT folder. It would import, and then when I looked, it was all Sent mail but only up to Oct 18,2008. I then deleted that "Import/Sent" mailbox in Mail.app, then tried to Import again, just checking the "Sent Mail" box when it asks you "which items do you want to import from Entourage", etc...
But still, it would import a huge sent-mail folder, but lacking emails from Oct 18-Dec 10 2008.
Any thoughts on why? Any suggestions on how to just get those SPECIFIC emails from Entourage and put them directly into Mail.app? It's over a month of Sent mails, which i actually need for my work (to check what I sent to which client, etc)...
Thanks- Samantha

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