Mail application, Silverkeeper and Lacie Firewire external drive

I have the following set-up:
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OS X (10.4.11)
Lacie Firewire 250Gb external hard disk
Silverkeeper 1.1.4
I have used this software many times and it has worked perfectly, flawlessly even, EXCEPT for one issue.
When I am at home I back up my Mac HD regularly to the Lacie. I also always do this just before I travel.
When I travel, I take the Lacie HD (and cables) with me, connect it to whatever PPC Mac is available, select the Lacie drive as my start-up disk, and then use it as if it were my G5 at home.
When I return home, I reconnect the Lacie to the G5 and back-up from the G5 (Source) to the Lacie (Destination) using Silverkeeper with the following option selected:
Preferences/Backup Actions/IF A FILE HAS A NEWER DATE ON THE DESTINATION COPY TO SOURCE
However, the selection of this option fails to copy any of the e-mail I have sent or received using the (Mac) Mail application from the Lacie drive to the G5. For each e-mail I have sent or received, I get this:
+The message from XXX <[email protected]> concerning “RE: ZZZ” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download i+t.
This message is in the right e-mail box, but there is no header or field information of any kind, never mind any text in the body of the message.
I have no idea what this message means. The Mail application on my G5 iMac (and its 'mirror' on the Lacie drive) is set up to retrieve and send mail through POP and SMTP accounts and does not work with webmail. Furthermore, the Mail application checks for and sends e-mail automatically at fixed pre-programmed intervals according to its configuration.
What therefore does '..+.has not been downloaded from the serv+er.' mean. What server?
And what does '+You need to take this account online in order to download it+.' mean? I have to be on-line in order to send and receive e-mail in the first place, and the Mail application works perfectly when running on the Lacie drive. The e-mails all APPEARED in their correct mailboxes in Mail on the Lacie drive. Silverkeeper simply fails to back up sent and received e-mails from the Lacie drive to the G5 HD. Also, if I now (after having copied from source to destination as above) make the Lacie drive the start-up disk, the e-mails sent and received on my travels are no longer in their mailboxes, but have instead been replaced with the messages identical to that in italics given above.
Any help in solving this would be hugely appreciated. I have already lost quite a few e-mails and hope not to lose more.
Many thanks.
I appreciate that it is possible to configure the Mail app. to leave e-mails on the server for a month after first downloading them to Mail, or to remove them from the server only when they are removed from the Inbox, but I suspect that would drive me mad. Also I have rules and filters set up to send the incoming mails to customised mailboxes that are not in the Inbox, so that second option might equate to immediate removal from the server.

Seems Silver Keeper no longer keeps up, let me sugest..
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup4...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html

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