DataRescueII won't recover mail

Help....
I trashed the mail.plist file in my users/xxx/library/prefs because I thought that would solve a problem I am having with Mail. When I went to re-open Mail.app, it asked me to start a new account. YIKES! Where are my several POP accounts and all my mail. I did not restart or open other apps. I quickly ran the demo of DataRescue II, but it didn't recover the .plist file
The Mail folder in the library is still intact, and it has all my POP / IMAP accounts listed. I backed this up.
Have I lost all my messages?
Back Story...
I got a used MacBook Pro running 10.4.7. I wanted to switch over to it from my G4 15". I had very little time and did NOT do a back up before doing the Migration in Taget mode. The Migration Asst. would not work (long story involving Apple care on the phone). I had to reinstall the MAC OS and use CarbonCopy to bring everything over. I tested almost everything after the transfer, and only lost some utilities (Drive Genius, TechTools, MAc Stumbler) and the Statnano widget - all these would not run on the intel.
When I tested Mail, e-mails were coming in on all accounts.
All my mail from the old computer was where it should be. Great.
But when I tried to create a new e-mail or reply to an old one, the SEND button and REPLY buttons would not work (just clicked but no actions). I've had this nightmare of a problem with Mail in the past. I thought that trashing the pref file was what worked before. Did I just make a huge error?
MacBook Pro 15"Pbook G4 15" Aluminum, iBook 14" 1GHz, Tbook 700MHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Since the Mail.app preference file stores all account information and general Mail.app preferences, when moving the preference file out of the Preferences folder requires re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
This is the procedure I recommend when targeting the Mail.app preference file.
With the Mail.app quit the using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop.
I quickly ran the demo of DataRescue II, but it didn't recover the .plist file
When targeting an application's preference file, better to move it to the Desktop first and not delete it. If an unexpected problem occurs, you can quit the application and move the preference file from the Desktop back to the Preferences folder to restore previous application settings.
Since you already trashed the original preference file, do so again with the new/existing com.apple.mail.plist file and empty the Trash.
Note: Deleting or moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information the same as before, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailboxes at Home > Library > Mail.
After re-entering all email account information and confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder placed on the Desktop.

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