Help move from obese Entourage to Mail

I've put off this transition for waaaaay too long, and now I'm stuck, 'bout 80% through.
My Entourage database was over 7 GB, total. I was lazy for not having switched before, but the fact that each email meant that Time Machine had to back up an ~ 7 GB file (every freakin' hour!), and that it would take a minute or more to run a simple search in my contacts list, well, that pushed me to make the change.
So, I did a little homework and found that there was no way I was going to export the entire database in a digestible chunk for Mail to import, so I dragged each mail folder into finder, individually, and then imported them into Mail. No Problem!
But wait! I go in to my (imported) 'in box' and 'sent', each of which had about eleventy-bajillion emails in them in Entourage, and I find that they're both incomplete. They each start at the (chronological) beginning, but each stops at some random date that is only most-of-the-way through the whole list.
So I go back into finder and discover that both files are exactly the same size... 2.15 GB. I find that to be more than coincidental.
My questions to you are these...
Am I limited to a max export size of 2.15 GB for any one mail folder in Entourage? (if yes, I'll go and parse these mama-beater-sized folders into a few smaller ones)
or...
Is there another tool that will allow me to export (and then import into Mail) a folder greater than this magical size limit from Entourage into Mail?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Have you ever compressed Entourage's database? When you delete emails from the Deleted folder, they don't actually go anywhere. They remain part of the database, though inaccessible.
Close Entourage if it's running. Hold down the Option key and launch it again. What you will be given instead is the Database Utility. Run the option first to "Verify database integrity". If that comes back okay, then run "Compact database". This will rewrite the entire database and leave out all of the deleted items. If you've never done this before, your database size could shrink by a lot.
When that's done, I always run the verify function again just to make sure the new database is okay. Then quit the Database Utility and launch Entourage normally. If everything looks okay, quit Entourage and go to the folder in your user account where the database is. You'll find "Main Identity" and "Main Identity (Backed up date)". The second is your old database before the compress and can be tossed.
I go in to my (imported) 'in box' and 'sent', each of which had about eleventy-bajillion emails in them in Entourage, and I find that they're both incomplete.
For this issue, it may have to do with how many emails eleventy-bajillion is. OS X has a limit of something like 38,000 items per folder. If your email count exceeds that, then that's why it got cut off.

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