Importing messages from Entourage

On three machines all running 10.4.11 I try to import messages from Entourage, and the process always is as follows. The bar begins to progress, with the Folder name up top, followed by the quickly changing names of each subject line. It seems to be importing each message.
All three instances the imports finish, with all the folders/sub-folders imported but no messages.
I am going to upgrade the machines to 10.5 tomorrow. See if that works.

I need help also - to anyone out there - after importing the data from Entourage, in addition to missing messages, my mail.app is now running so slow (both downloading messages and opening messages).
The mail.app "Help" is also not opening up.
I wanted to re-load the software also to see if it will correct everything but do not know where to get the application from - is this the best thing to do or what alternatives are there?
Thanks,
gailp

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