Mail shows up completely blank just after partitioning w/ boot camp

Hi folks,
As the title says, I partitioned a portion of my 10.6.8 MBPro's drive for windows, and once I switched back over to the Mac partition everything in mail is gone. Not just all the emails, but all the mailboxes, smart mailboxes, reminders, etc. are completely gone. But on my Mac Pro (also 10.6.8), all of these things are still clearly there as well as unread emails. I can see everything on my iphone too.
So I am guessing this is just an issue with my Macbook Pro, but have no idea how to fix it. Any help is appreciated, thank you!
Mike T

After trying all of the above and finding a random thread out there, I went ahead and put my SuperDrive back in and placed my secondary drive as the primary and was able to install Windows 7 without a hitch.
So I guess that "solved" my problem. I popped my secondary drive (with Bootcamp) back into place and put my SSD as the primary again, and I was able to boot into Windows.
Stinks that I had to do ALL OF THAT and trick my MB Pro like that.
But hey, it's working. Hooray.

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