Help! Urgent! Mail sent my mail to the netherworld...

Ack!
Here's what I did:
I wanted to make month-named archive mailboxes within a year folder.
I created 12 mailboxes in a row by creating the mailbox and naming it: 1/2008, 2/2008, etc.
(YES- I NOW KNOW WHAT I DID)
I saw that what I had done was create a white folder named 1 with a triangle...I instantly surmised that within lay a folder named "2008" -bleh! Don't want that...so I hit the triangles on all the folders to reveal the "2008 folders within, selected them all at once, and deleted them.
Then I went to my inbox, sorted by date, grabbed the hundreds of emails for March, and said "move to folder on my mac named 3"
Then I did it with April (4)
then I decided to look in the mailboxes...why were they white? What did it mean?
I looked.
NOTHING.
What????
No!
So I searched for "march" in all mailboxes, with mailbox column visible, sorted by mailbox.
a bunch of emails were in the white march mailbox.
I selected one and got a message saying it hadn't been downloaded???
I ignored the message, selected them all, and went to transfer them to the inbox.
Got an error message that i didn't write down, and they disappeared from my search.
WHERE IS MY MAIL? HELP!
(I then did a find in the finder and a spotlight search, trying to find the mail that way. no luck.)
Help!
(This is on my Macbook, which is running Tiger)

I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11706
hen search for...
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