Changing to IMAP without wiping my Inbox

I want to change my email to IMAP as marking as read/deleting my emails twice, from my computer and my iPhone is becoming rather annoying. However I tried to do this once before and it deleted all my old emails. I find myself searching through old emails almost daily, so my email history is very important to me. I had to go back to POP3, and retrieve all my emails from Time Machine and it was a huge mess.
How can I make the change to IMAP without this happening again?

Thomas than you for your reply. I followed your instructions, however it timed out as I was uploading my old emails back into my Inbox on the server. The Inbox on the server has 5525 emails, and the mailbox I created on my computer of all my old emails has 8000 emails. 2475 did not transfer. How can I just copy over the missing emails? When I try and copy over the emails again it doesnt give me an option to just copy the missing emails, it wants to copy them all again, creating duplicates for the 5525 already copied. I tried to create a smart mailbox to show me the emails I have in the Mailbox on my computer than dont exist in the Inbox on my server, but it just displays all the emails.
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Sorry to let you read this long story, sorry about temper.. but does anybody have idea on this sort of cases?

yes I knew it was too good to be true, so i was worried but their answer was don't worry it can be done, we are the authorized dealer.
If they fully told us about it, I wouldn't even upgrade my phone and just kept it up with my iphone 4 which I think is still working good for me.
ahh... I just feel so bad
I mean i might be ok with 6gb as we actually don't use that much for the most of the time, but still. This is wrong.
And they tried to do exactly same thing again. and just ignored the issue when I brought it up.
The reason I'm mad and want to get back my old plan is mainly because I feel we've been conned and lost something that we would not have lost without knowing it - and they knew about it all but hid it.
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