Messages in Inbox gone/disappeared/deleted?

Opened up Mail today and all the messages in my inbox before yesterday are gone. They are not in the deleted messages. They are not in an On My Mac folder. They have just disappeared.
This is actually the second machine this has happened to me on. This happened on my work machine which is also running 10.6.2.

This is not a reply to the current topic, but a similar problem. Whenever I edit an email in my In box (or, as has just happened, the Sent Box), the message just disappears into nowhere. This is a long standing problem (at least 2 to 3 years)* which I have never seen raised before. What's the official line on this?
TIA
* ie not specific to 10.6

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FromBone wrote:
Thanks V.K.! So there is no chance for me to re upload all the messages from my mac to my yahoo inbox.
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