I am having trouble moving mail and and firefox profiles to Macbook from Powerbook

I just inherited a cool late 2008 aluminum Macbook with Lion.  But I can't seem to get my Mail to move over or my Firefox preferences.  I tried the steps for moving mail:  copying and pasting the keychain, mail and mail preferences files.  Nothing happened. I've started now to set up the old way (ie setting up the accounts as if they were new) but know this is not a good idea.
Trying to get something to work, I tried to move over my Firefox profile by copying the file into the same place on the new computer as old. Nothing.
In both Mail and Firefox, I can see the new files, but they aren't being read. 
Stupidly, I did not copy the old files before I pasted the new.
Should I just start over and reload Lion??
I'm so frustrated!
Thanks for any help.
Anne

I also see that it seems to be moving all of the mail over from my gmail account.  I didn't mean to move everything out of gmail to this computer!  Now what do I do??

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