Import Mailbox Missing Some Messages

Hi,
I am trying to move my local mailboxes in Mail from a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.5 to a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.7. I backed up each mailbox on the old computer using Mailbox > Archive Mailbox within Mail. I then copied those files from the old computer to the new computer. On the new computer, I imported each mailbox using File > Import Mailboxes within Mail.
Unfortunately, several of the mailboxes on the new computer don't have all of the original messages. For example, one mailbox that has about 2000 messages on the old computer now has only about 1500 messages on the new computer.
Can anyone tell me why this happening and how to fix it?
Thanks for any help!

Thanks! This helped, but not fully.
On the old computer, I rebuilt each of the mailboxes that hadn't imported correctly. I then archived those mailboxes, copied to the new computer, and imported in Mail. More of the missing messages are now there, but not all.
For example, one mailbox had 5481 messages on the old computer. When I first moved it to the new computer, it only had 1693 messages. Once I went back and rebuilt, then archived, copied, and imported again, it now has 4129 messages on the new computer. But there are still about 1300 messages missing.
I also tried rebuilding the mailboxes once they had been imported on the new computer, but that didn't change anything.
Is there another use of Rebuild that I'm missing?

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