Import email from Mail to Outlook

I just recently upgraded my OS to Lion, and I am pleased with it so far. I have run into an issue with regards to e-mail though. I was using Mail for my default mail client, but have decided to switch to Outlook 2011 Mac for personal reasons. MS Office 2011 for Mac was installed prior to upgrading Lion. When I try to import messages from Mail, the import process creates a folder in Outlook, but no messages are imported. As soon as I select Ok to start the Import Wizard, it will immediate finish with no messages imported. I have spoken to another person and they confirmed that the import failed as well for them, they have upgraded to Lion as well. I am asking if this is a known issue with Lion or just coincident.
Thanks for any and all support/solutions.
Stewart Gordon

I just downloaded and installed Thunderbird to test importing from Mail. I go through the import wizard and when I get to the end of it I get the following message
Mail was successfully imported from Mail
No mailboxes were found to import
After each import attempt a new import folder is created but no messages are imported.
As this is pretty much the same end result from using the Outlook import wizard as well, I want to say that this might not be a Outlook issue.

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Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
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~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
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Go ▹ Go to Folder
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(null)     (null)
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