Mac mail inbox suddenly empty

I have an old imac running on snow leopard, and I just got my mom a new imac with lion for christmas. She has two yahoo email addresses, so we set up Mail to import both, and it's been running fine for about 2 weeks now. Then suddenly tonight, one of her inboxes was completely empty. I tried syncing, taking it offline and back online, restarting Mail, I even deleted the account and re-added it, but it's still completely empty. The other email address is still working fine.
I've never had an issue like this with my own computer, and I just spent about an hour searching for solutions on google, to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I've been praising mac for years, and now my mom's first one is super buggy (this is just one of many issues she's been having -- another annoying thing is that it's losing the wifi connection every time it comes out of sleep.) I feel like it's such a letdown!
Anyway, I'd be very grateful if anyone knows how to fix this!

First, I don't know if you are aware that the free standard Yahoo email accounts does not support POP or IMAP to a native mail client like Mail. To gain POP access, you have to pay $20/year. I checked, Yahoo asks you to upgrade for this privilege. Now assuming that you paid, I would disable and re-enable the POP access by logging into your Yahoo account via a web browser.

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This is my very first post because I can usually fix things on my own, but I was freaking out a bit. I did so many things to mess up my mail, including changing an IMAP account to a POP account, applying rules that were not very smart, and when things started to go wrong, I deleted the POP account. Essentially, I pulled all my emails off the server, put them in a folder on my Mac, then deleted that folder by deleting the account. But, I appreciate your reply and potential solution. I'm always happy to learn more about my Mac, and now I know where I can look (home/user folder Library/Mail) should this happen again, so thanks for that. I was just going to leave a reply to my own post;
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