Lion Mail preview not loading / showing emails

After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion, the new Mail program is not working correctly.
It appears many of my messages (in the inbox, sent, drafts) only have the email address and header, and don't have any text in the actual email....so in the preview pane, it just says loading....and nothing loads.  I have seen others postings similar problems online.  I've tried some of the solutions, none worked.
I can send and received new emails - and they show up fine in the preview pane.
All the emails in mailboxes I've created On My Mac in mail are fine.
How do I get all my emails in the inbox, drafts and sent to show up correctly?
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.  Thanks!

Hi DreamsPower:
I did not have any luck with the rebuild mailbox command, or other solutions posted online, so this is what I did to restore my missing mail:
1) run time machine so I have a backup of my current Lion Mail programs data.
2) deleted all the messages (inbox, drafts, sent, etc.) that would not show anything in preview window. Since I had sent and received a number of emails after installing Lion....and these new emails showed up fine in preview, so I did not delete them.
3) opened up time machine backup to a date just before I did the Lion upgrade, and then restored the Mail programs data folder (users>library>mail) to my desktop.  This gives me a copy of the Mail program data files (all my emails) before the Lion System/Mail upgrade.  Then opened the appropriate mailbox subfolder folder (from the restored mail folder on my desktop), such as the inbox, and then opened the messages folder or folders in the inbox (there may be several and they may be buried in numbered folders).  The message folder(s) will have your emails (the emails will have numbers for names).  Then I just option dragged (copied) the email messages and dropped them in my Lion Mail programs inbox, and now my inbox has all my missing messages.  Did the same for the drafts and sent emails.  So now I have all my mail and they show up when previewed.  Since the messages in my other mailboxes were fine, I did not need to delete and replace them.
Hope this makes sense.....

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