Mail freezes during message import

Hi all,
I recently fire-wire transfered all of my files from an iBook running 10.3 onto a Powerbook G4 running 10.4.11
When I went to open Mail, it prompted me to import my mailboxes. I've tried twice, and each time, it never gets past "Imported 14960 of 19504 messages". Up until that point it is dutifully chugging away importing messages, but it can't get past that point. Worse, there's no way to just click "ok" or "continue", if you cancel it, it starts at the top all over again.
Suggestions? Is there an alternative way to get all my mail folders? Please help!
Thanks!

You gettin' any Snow today?
If you haven't, try these two on both drives if possible...
Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later to verify or repair disks...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
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