Empty mailboxes after importing from panther to tiger - can't solve

Dear all,
I have been happily using my ibook G3 300mhz for seven years now, running system nine first then jaguar then panther (currently 10.3.9).
I have nearly all my emails from 98 onwards, which I first imported from eudora to eudora (8600 to ibook) and then from eudora on ibook to mail on ibook. I have a pop account and a mac account with an alias (.mac and IMAP therefore). I probably have about 10.000 emails scattered in many folders and subfolders. Some of my mac mails are even saved in folders belonging to my pop account (thus located on my mac).
I've been waiting for the new macbook for a couple of months, had it for FOUR days now and seem unable to transfer my mail from my ibook to my macbook. I have tried both copying the whole mail folder and importing mailboxes from within mail.
With the first option when I open mail it says it needs to import my messages and is then stuck on message 659. May be a corrupt message but I have no way of knowing which one it is and delete it from the library. With the second options it imports all boxes alright, even displaying a numebr of messages whcih appears realistic, but I get the usual "You need to take this account online in order to download it" message. The only messages I can actually see are those in my inbox for my .mac account and those still on the server for my pop account. Any and all messages in any of the other mailboxes (even the .mac ones which are definitely on the server) seem to have disappeared.
I have even tried backing up from the ibook with mac backup and then restoring to the macbook (has worked for preferences, itunes playlist etc) the result is the same: boxes are there but appear empty.
I think I have read all threads concerning similar problems but don't seem to find a suitable solution. I was so looking forward to getting my new computer and being able to use mail 2 and now I've been stuck for days, with a huge waste of time. Why can't my intel core duo with tiger do what my little ibook with panther did so successfully and faithfully, albeit admittetly really slowly?
Needless to say I need to have all my messages exactly in the same mailboxes as I have them on my old comp, I certainly can't throw them into one huge box and sort them from there!
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am even willing to spend a few bucks on any conversion program that can do the job (although after just purchasing the macbook I shouldn't have to spend anything more) just to avoid this incredible waste of time.
A faithful apple user who is getting kind of frustrated
Diana

Hello, Diana.
I think I have read all threads concerning similar problems
Have you read this in particular?
Help! "You need to take this account online in order to download it."
You won't find the solution to your problem there, but it should let you better understand it. In particular, if using Mail on the iBook under Mac OS X 10.3.9 is still an option, you may want to try to clean up your mailboxes there first, using the following article as a guidance:
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
Before start troubleshooting this, you should make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case.
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