Mail and 10.4.5 upgards LOST entile mailbox

I just upgraded to OS 10.4.5 from 10.3.9
when i opened my mail app for the first time
I expected everything to go fine. The mail mailbox imported alright as did the sent mail archive (as near as I can tell)
but my past mail archive was dumped... I get the subject line but the e-mail contents request that I "download again from the server"
that's not quite do-able as some of the messages are 3+ years old.
when quit mail and reopened the mailbox all the subject lines for that archived mail were now gone.
Any ideas on how to recover?
I've looked in the library file and saved what I could from the archive (a gig of data) but the mail doesn't seem to want to take it.
System: quicksilver G4 DP 533 a gig of RAM
moving from OS 10.3.9 -> 10.4.3 > 10.4.5
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Hello,
If you check the Discussions, you will find numerous topics about this message. It is caused by incomplete conversion of the mailbox structure from pre-Tiger to Tiger basis. It is also caused by leftover files from the Panther mailboxes.
Since your mailboxes originated in Panther, I want you to read the article at the link below, and perhaps get back to me with some observations, before attempting any changes:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301315
This issue of leftover files applies not only to mailboxes you have previously created (which are in the Mailboxes folder the article mentioned) but can also apply to those mailboxes in account folders created prior to the upgrade to Tiger.
Also, please report the size of each file or folder. Do not, however, try to list the files that are within the folder named Messages, that is found in each and every mailbox. It is very important to compare the size of any file named "mbox" with that of the Messages folder. If the mbox is greater in size than the Messages folder, then not all messages have been converted to be in the Messages folder.
The path to the Mail folder is Home/Library/Mail -- within the Mail folder are one or more account folders and the Mailboxes folder.
It might be best to post about what you find and observer, since several different situations can result.
Ernie

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