Loss of old mail for Pop mailboxes

Recently I had to force my Powerbook G4 to shutdown as it refused to do so on its own. When I turned it back on the next day, all my mail preferences were gone! I had to completely reconfigure my mailboxes (specifically I use two gmail addresses). Now, however, I am receiving and sending mail with no problem, but I don't have my old mail in Mail. When I go to Library, the messages are still there (they're both POP accounts), so I know they're not deleted. I've tried Importing these mailboxes, but I never seem to get the fabled Import Mailbox when I do so. I'm sorry if this is unclear, I'm at a loss for a better, clearer way to explain. Ultimately, I just want my old mail, both sent and in my inbox to reappear in the Mail Application so I can use that wonderful search feature.

You're welcome.
I just tried removing the [email protected] folder
(keeping a back up copy). I deleted the account and set
it up again, hoping it would reimport my mail from the
gmail server (I'm desperate...), nothing happened.
This is because Gmail only allows messages to be downloaded once with a POP client.
I've still got the copy of the mail, so no worries there.
OK. We'll bring your mail back into Mail, don't worry about that. If the old account folders are no longer in ~/Library/Mail/, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, and select the account folders from the backup (one at a time). Note that you must select the folder that contains the mailboxes (i.e. the account folder), not the mailboxes themselves.
If the old account folders were still in ~/Library/Mail/, the procedure would be different. Let me know if that's the case.
At this point, I can live without my messages.
That ain't gonna happen...
But do you have any idea what would cause
my preferences in multiple programs to disappear?
Lack of available disk space, power outages, filesystem corruption...
Verify/repair your disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
You may also want to take a look at the following article:
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