Mail in Lion: missing sub-folders in file cabinet

After a problem with my "old" MacBook Pro, I have just bought a new one with OSX 10.7.3 Lion and Mail 5.2. I was able to move almost everything over with the Migration Assistant and recovered almost all the remaining from my cloud backup at Carbonite. So far so good.
However, in mail, some (not all) sub-folders in the file cabinet do not appear. I redid the restore from Carbonite but they still do not appear. Tried doing a rebuild of the File Cabinet and the folders within it but aparently that does nothing.
My assumption is that the are there in the folders of mboxes but, since the Library is now hidden from view, I can not look to verify if the mailboxes are there.
What do I do to get them visable?
Thanks in advance.

Ernie,
I have completed my recovery of the missing sub-folders. The only change that I would make in my procedure is to not delete the mbox from the original location in the folder - because then I had to move it back from the desktop. (Not sure what is going on here.)
So my procedure was:
In user/Library/Mail, find the mbox that is not appearing in the Mail File Cabinet list.
Drag it onto the desktop. (That wil be a copy. It will remain in the Library.)
In Mail, use the Import Mailbox option to import it.
Move the imported folder or sub-folder into place - to where it should be on the list.
Delete the mbox copy from the desktop (validate).
It works. But, in a word - UGLY!
Since nothing more elegant has been suggested and since I have recovered the folders, I am now going to give you credit for solving the problem.
Thanks for your help.

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