Deleted folder mystery what happend and where is it now

I have a mail folder that has messages inside and a sub folder with messages inside that. For clarity I will call it Folder 1 and subfolder 1.
I was renaming folder 1 and got a message that there was an error:
ERROR Mail was unable to rename "~/Library/Mail/....."
It did however create a new folder(i will call folder 2) with the new name, and the subfolder (subfolder 2) with the same name as before, but is was not the same color blue as the others, more like white in color.
I deleted folder 2 (and got the warning message) but it not only deleted folder 2 and subfolder 2, but also deleted subfolder 1.
I would love to know why this happened, but more importantly, where is subfolder 1?
I am hesitant to go restoring anything for fear that I will lose or overwrite data.
I did creat a mac backup of my mail and settings last friday, but I have never needed to restore before and am not sure what will happen to new mail reeived since the backup.
ANy thoughts?
thanks
PowerBook G4 15 1.25 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

My guess is that Folder 1 was seen as a white folder Icon in the Sidebar, before and after subfolder 1 went missing. As a white folder, Mail could see the items apparently still contained within it. Recreating the subfolder somehow allowed the display of content from the Messages folder, that apparently survived the previous delete operation. We would have been able to go into the Finder and see this, I think, but I also think you are very lucky.
Ernie

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