Hotmail in OS X Mail: DELETED all of my messages?

right now i absolutely despise OS X's Mail program. I've been using Entourage for a while and decided it'd be nice to just use all Apple software, but boy did i make the wrong decision.
it seemed like i was able to sync my hotmail account up fine with my OS X Mail, but something ended up happening and all of my messages from my hotmail folders disappeared. I went to hotmail.com to check my actual folders and alas, all the messages are gone from there too. Either OS X Mail somehow just deleted all of my messages (years worth of saved stuff) or it put it somewhere on my computer. I went to Library/Mail, but all of the folders in there that have the same names as my hotmail subfolders seem to be empty, unless i'm missing something. it just seems completely unreal that all of my messages just suddenly disappeared. Apple can't suck that badly...
can anyone please help me with this? i'd really like to use OS X Mail, but i can't be having this! i also had several other problems with it, including messages i sent through hotmail via the OS X Mail didn't appear in the Sent folder when i log into hotmail.com. Entourage did this perfectly.

if i SEND an email through Mail, it should come up in my SENT folder in hotmail.com. i'd think that'd just be common default options, but apparently it's not in Mail.
Mail isn't at fault, since it can't control what you see on Hotmail. It all depends on how the server is setup, but many web-based services will not show any indication of receiving an email from the same address that has been sent through their system. Some will, some won't. If you do this in Gmail, it will show it,but it won't download it; if you do it in Yahoo! Mail, it won't even show the email.
s there a way that i don't even have to download messages from hotmail.com?
Only if you stop using Hotmail, or just use the Hotmail web-based interface for everything and store your messages online.
i'd prefer to not even save copies to my computer. or do i have to in order for me to have access to them on Mail and Entourage?
If you want to be able to read them on your Mac, you have to download them.

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