Imported Mailboxes Showing Up Empty

Hi there.
I'm trying to import mailboxes from one mac to another, the source mac is 10.4 and the other is 10.3. Everything seems to go smoothly, the mailboxes show up in Mail but they're all empty. In Finder the size of the folders are right but there are no emlx files in there.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Going backwards, (1.4 to 10.3) may be the problem... no way for 10.3 to know about the changes.
What are the Permissions on those folders?

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