Migration from 10.4 Mail to 10.6 Mail from a backup copy of the home folder

Hey all.
I am having problem reconstructing the contents of Mail.
The old mail had a few mailboxes/folders with emails sorted into them.
I read in some threads that copying the ~/lybrary/mail folder and the com.apple.mail.plist would rebuild the old contents... is it possible that this solution isn't working because of structural differences between 10.4 and 10.6?
- Is there a way to at least salvage the mail messages?
Thanks for your time.
Castillo
Message was edited by: Darthen

Hmmm...I did everything that you suggested, and everything seemed to go smoothly...until I attempted to open the mail in the imported mailboxes: In each Apple Mail imported mailbox, the email headers are visible, but there is no content in the email messages; and the POP account imported mail had both headers and content, but only the first 4 of 8 years of emails were imported.
I looked into the /Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes folder, and found that each named mailbox had two versions: one with a folder icon named exactly as named by the user, and one with an inbox icon named in format [mailbox name].mbox; the version with the folder icon is empty, whereas the version with the inbox icon has various items, including Info.plist and Messages; the Messages folder has all the email messages.
So if the Apple Mail import used the former versions, then it makes sense that there is no content (but the headers are present).
Do you know why this happened? And can you suggest a way to remedy it?
Thanks!

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