How to get my mailbox back

HI. I WAS USING MAIL IN MY OLD G4 IBOOK. I BUY A MACKBOOK PRO. TO TRANSFER MY FILES TO MY NEW COMPUTER I DRAG MY PERSONAL MAILBOX WITH SOFTWARE CODES ETC... TO MY EXTERNAL HD. THEN I CONECTED THE EXTERNAL HD TO MY NEW COMPUTER TO DRAG AND DROP THE MAILBOX BACK. FOR MY SURPRISE IT DID NOT WORK AND WHEN I TRY TO RESTORE FOLLOWING THE APPLE PROCEDURE IT JUST RESTORE 3 OR 4 OF MY MESSAGES OF ALMOST 50 OR SO THAT ARE IN THERE.
WHAT CAN I DO?
JRO

JRO,
the first thing you can do is to quit typing with the caps lock on, THERE IS NO REASON TO SHOUT HERE.
What was the OSX version you were using on the old G4?
Let's begin all over in case you dragged something to Mail that will give you problems in the future.
Quit Mail
Delete the mailboxes you dragged on your new Mac.
Delete the folder: user/Library/Mail
Delete user / Library / Preferences / com.apple.mail.plist
Restart Mail, this will create a fresh mail folder in your Library and a new plist file.
Enter your email account data.
Choose from the File menu, Import mailboxes, locate the mailbox data on your external drive and see if it imports correctly.

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