Mail crash when trying to import inbox from thunderbird

hey,
i am trying to convert all my operations to native programs, i am currently using ThunderBird as my mail client but want to move over to mail. when i go to import my inbox i manage to find it and when it starts to import it crashes! i am assuming it is because i have over 4,500 e-mails that are split over to folders about even. i want to know how can i solve this, basically all i want is to open up mail and have everything there not in a separate folder that has all my imported e-mails, i want it as if i have been using mail from the start.
all help would be appreciated
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Hi Farid Shahin.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described in the following article, in case there is something amiss in the filesystem:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
You’d get better results using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion.
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner requires rebuilding the imported mailboxes in Mail afterwards. Instead of rebuilding them one by one, you can re-create the entire index as follows:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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