Mail and notes missing after software update

After doing a routine software update all the read emails and notes in my 'Mail' Inbox have disappeared.  Has anyone experienced this and if so, is there any way of retrieving them?

I was posting a different work-around until Apple came out with the official article:
Open a Finder window and "Find" like the screenshot: By filename for Mail.app
Track down and discard any old versions of Mail you find. They don't work anyway.
Then do these two steps:
* Run the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo 1.1.http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
* Run the Security update.http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1586
--identified by Barney15E and Jreporter

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