Help setting up mail box and rules, please.

This is rather a convoluted story, but hang with me if you can.- Please.
After all these years I just started to have problems with Mail. Not Mail's problems, but my ineptitude to figure out how to do what I wanted!
Got my new PB 17' last month - what joy- and migrated everything.
I tried Microsoft Office's Entourage, specifically the mail program, just to look at it. So, I imported my mail to see how it acted. During that time I deleted some stuff (knowing all messages were in Mail), so I could play with just a few messages. Closed Entourage after deciding that what I had was far superior. Went back to doing normal things, and it wasn't until about a week later I realized that a very large batch of mail had GONE. I realized right away what had happened - I had been online at the time and Entourage had actually deleted MY precious MAIL.
Too late to get any back, so I set up a "Sheila's Inbox" in Mail (on my Mac) to move messages to, so this could never happen again, and tried to create a rule. That went fine but then I had problems with my junk filter sending everything to my NEW in box (on my Mac). Then I tried to reset my Junk filter and that was a total disaster as I again lost my mail. Can anyone tell me how to set up an InBox on my Mac so I can move mail from the regular INBOX, and still have the Junk Mail filter working properly? I really thought I had done a good job with the rules, but obviously had not. Any hints would be gratefully accepted.
Thanks,
Sheila

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