Lost my Mail Inbox after upgrade

I just upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.4.3. I archived users when I met with upgrade failures. There was no opportunity to restore users provided. I manually moved the previous system folders by logging in as root and managed to recover many things.
I am having trouble recovering my old mail inbox (from a POP account) . I have found my sent mail, old-old mail folders that I didn't know still existed, and I have even found deleted mail. What I don't see is my old inbox. I backed up my mail directory before the upgrade and I don't see an Inbox there either.
Is the inbox configured differently than the Sent, Deleted, and other user mailboxes I had? If so where does the Inbox live and what is it called? How can I get my email back?
Side comment. It would be nice if the Migration Assistant was capable of handling archived user directories.
All help is appreciated.

I just ran into this same problem. Just upgraded to Tiger (I thought the bugs would be out by now!!!) I did make a retrospect backup but am finding it impossible to bring in the POP as well. Hoping someone has an answer.
The search continues....

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