Migration Assistant ruined my life, now my dot mac mail is gone :(

I added a second user name on my brand new intel mac yesterday, it had only been in my house two days.
I transfered information from a firewire backup, it was an exact match for a used name for my broken power imac running tiger.
It transfered all the mail setting and programs, I though everything was fine. Then I went to my original user name and did get mail. After taking the dog out, I came back to find four or more copies of every email that was in my in box, somehow the synch had made multiple copies.
I started to delete the extras, leaving one copy of each email.
Then all **** broke lose, all the emails were gone, from my other two older macs to. It had synched all of them, and I had the trash set to delete.
Now all my macs and user names have the same damaged list on the incoming mail section.
I tried the chat at me.com and they said someone would get back to me.
Does anyone know if dot mac, me mac saves mail on a server someplace? and will they get it back for me?

HI,
If you can, from the Mac Mail Menu Bar click Mailbox/Rebuild. This can take several minutes. See if that helps.
Also, you may need to trash the Mac Mail preference file.
Go to the Mac Mail Menu Bar, click Mail/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Mac Mail.
Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.mail.plist to the Desktop. Relaunch Mac Mail. If Mail behaves, move that .plist file to the Trash.
The tilde "~" character represents your home folder.
Carolyn

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