Mail accounts and messages have dissapeared

Hi there,
I logged into mail today to find that all my messages have just dissapeared along with the two mail account folders I use. I have just upgraded from tiger to leopard and had an initial problem which was rectified by moving the two .plist files and repalcing them and had been working fine for the last two weeks.
The only thing I have done was change the Junk mail rules to put junk mail in a seperate folder. Have tried moving the .plist files again but no luck with that.
Any help would be much appreciated,
Cheers
LB

I opened removed all the files under this folder in Finder: your account name/Library/Mail/Bundles
and guess what? i can create the old accounts back in Mail again, and of course after relaunching the Mail, the accounts are still there!
Hope this helps!
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