Copy emails from local folder to an IMAP folder on the computer?

The title really doesn't describe what I want to do, sorry.
My mum's Mini runs 10.7.5 and she uses Mail to read her Gmail account. Until now she's used POP to access and download emails but I've now set up IMAP.
She has three local mailboxes on her computer - totalling some 1,5GB - which I would like to turn into Gmail mailboxes (i've already created the Labels in Gmail). I could copy the messages from these POP mailboxes to the IMAP boxes (both accounts are currently active in Mail) but that would eat up all of my mum's 3G broadband internet allotment.
Is there anyway to circumvent this? What happens if I copy the local mailboxes in ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes to the IMAP folder in ~/Library/Mail/V2? Will that simply tag the messages or will that also move them across the internet connection?
Could I use some Mail app rules or such which would be recognised by Gmail as labels?
Thanks in advance for any insight. I have a feeling I will have to move the messages across the net but thought I should ask first.
Many thanks
philip

Hi,
I had tried using that very same extension right after messing things up, but it hadn't worked because I deleted the original folders as well.
Then I tried doing a System Restore (luckily, Windows had decided to do an automatic one the night before), but still the missing emails weren't showing.
A while after that I saw your suggestion and it hit me that I had not tried it after doing the System Restore, so I tried it and all messages were flooding back just like magic.
Thank you very much for your help! I'm very happy right now.

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