How to I import old mail from Netscape to Mail?

I need to move old email from a Netscape account to a Mac Mail account. The Netscape client is still in use, but I must move from Snow Leopard to Lion and I read that Netscape will not work in Lion. So...
I located the Mail folder within Library>Mozilla>Profiles>(Account Name)>XXXX.slt>Mail>Inbox (the Inbox with no suffix). I transferred this file to a jump drive. I verified, I think, that this is the correct file by opening it with Text Edit, and it indeed has email from 2001 to today. The file is 1.58gb in size.
I tried to import it into Mail by adding .mbox to the file and selecting .MBOX in the import window. It seems to import, but the resulting mailbox has mail only from 2001 to 2003.
Any sugestions? Thanks.
BC

What OS are you using now? Still SL? I went straight from SL to LION 10.7.5.
I can't go to ML on my older MBP 17". Check at the Apple store if you need more reassurance.
The trick is to follow the import instructions and select the main profile "account name" folder. From there a list of all mailboxes is offered. Pick and choose the ones you want.
You may have an issue if your single box is excessively large (way over a gig) but I did not. Better to break them up in smaller boxes first in Netscape if you can.
LION and ML will likely break LOTS of things you rely on (for me Office, mail, contacts, toast, utilities) Luckily, transferring my Netscape mail was not one of them.
BTW, I still think NS is a better email client and Palm is a better calendar/journal, but apple gets to decide these things for us now. As with iCloud. As with maps.

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