Mail has lost my incoming mail/sent mail information

I'm running Leopard on my G41Ghz Mac and have been for the last week. This morning when I opened Mail my 3 POP account incoming/sent mail information has disappeared - all I'm left with is my .Mac trial account and my original folders in the 'On my Mac' area. My .Mac trial started a week ago so this is something new.
I can see the 3 POP folders in my Home/Library/Mail/POP'name' and I have a backup copy but Mail won't open them.
How can I restore my accounts?

ok, so here is what I would suggest you do:
1) assuming you have lots of emails in the inbox/sent... mailboxes that vanished, then go to file>import and follow the instructions to import each of the mailboxes from each of the three pop accounts, pointing the import to the right path/location. Leopard Mail will import these emails to a mailbox created for that effect named import...
2) go to mail>preferences>accounts and recreate each pop account manually. once done then go to your imports and move the emails imported to their rightful place in inbox/sent... for each of the accounts.
hope this helps

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