Mail stops talking to POP server and deletes inbox contents

Mail has just started playing up: first by refusing to talk to (download from) my pop server (onetel) and then by deleting all the messages in my inbox. The connection doctor says everything is ok and even 'get info' will list messages on the pop server. Entourage also works fine too. However perhaps most annoyingly, many of the messages started saying The message from xxx concerning “yyy” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it. I have tgried a number of things ( eg rebuild and synchronise) which have perhaps resulted in a load of stuff being deleted.
Any suggestions as to what has happened and how to fix it? Any clues on how to retrieve the lost emails would be especially welcome!
ibook 12" G4 1.33GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9) Mail 2.1

In the Finder, open Home/Library/Mail and find your
one or more POP account folders. Control-click on
each such POP folder, and choose Get Info -- what
size is reported? Open the POP folder, and find the
INBOX.mbox folder -- open it and report the files and
folder within, without listing the files in the
Messages folder.
Ernie
Hi,
the pop folder reports a sze of 868kb and the INBOX.mbox folder contains only an Info.plist file and a messages folder.
As well as the messages in the inbox, all but one of those that were in the sent folder are also missing. Spotlighting for the missing e-mails turns up nothing either.
I am most mystified that Mail appears to have deleted messages without warning and without putting them somewhere sensible like the Deleted messages folder or the Trash! Could it be happening if the synchronise button is hit?
The POP connection problem is also a complete mystery - in fact it is currently working fine!

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