How to get mail from old computer to new in one place?

I've had lots of trouble merging my data from a G4 iMac to a new iMac. Now my problem is mail.
After the first Migration all was OK with mail. Then, because of other problems, I had to erase the entire new iMac. In doing so I lost about 10 days of mail. Now I have some new mail in the new Mac and lots of old mail in the old Mac and I can not get them together.
The new Mac has two POP folders in the Mail folder in the users Library. One has messages from 12/09 to 3/24/10. This one is named after an account I had 3+ years ago. The second POP folder has messages from only 3/29/10. It is named with the present account. Neither has the current messages that are in the inbox of Mail now. The current messages are from 3/29/10 until today but I can not find them in a folder, only by opening the mail program.
The mail prefs have been altered also. I had a major problem with a pref causing trouble ejecting disks and forbiding the Mac to start. All prefs were trashed. (I think I can find them, I kept them in folders rather than trashing them. However, there are several of these folders as I had to trash and restart several times.)
How can I get all my mail back together into one current mailbox?
Thanks.
Geoff

Thanks for this info. I wish I had know this before I migrated. And I wish the Mac sales person had know. And I wish the folks at Mac support had known. Or perhaps with so many experienced folks not knowing could it be controversial?
Be that as it may, the migration was done (several times) the new computer was non-functional but now seems to be OK. All I want now is to get my old email (from the old Mac) together with the new email (The stuff I've collected since being on the new Mac). That didn't work with the migration and getting all this straightened out has taken long enough that there is a collection of new email.
Geoff

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