Moving Mail files from One Computer to Another

I had to swap out my wife's laptop while her primary machine was in the shop. Now that the primary is fixed, I need to move all her files back to it. But I am having a heckuva time.
Using Mail's "Import Mailboxes" function, the relevant Mail folders (in the Users/Library folder of the secondary computer) display the red "minus" sign, which means the primary computer doesn't have permission to use them.
However, when I go to the secondary, open Get Info on those folders and give "Everyone" Read & Write access... it does not solve the problem.
What gives?
Same sort of thing happens when I just try to drag the folders over.
Primary computer is an iBook G4 running OSX 10.5. Secondary computer (from which I am trying to get the files) is an iBook G3 running 10.4

Man, what a hassle.
First... the account on each computer has the same username AND short name. Yet, when "Read & Write" is entered in the Get Info box for all of the involved folders, I still can't access them from the G4.
One thing I tried was to duplicate the Mail Folder and the plist to a separate partition on the hard drive... figuring I could just move them over. At first this did not work because I still was denied access.
THEN, I connected (via share) to the G3 with a different account name (mine, not my wife's). Note that I was still logged in to the G4 with her name... but when I clicked on the "connect" button to access, the G3, I logged in with my name.
Suddenly, all those duped folders on the partition were accessible. So I duped them over to the G4 in the appropriate places.
At first I got a message saying Mail could not start because it keeps info on where it stores things in the MAIL folder, but that folder was inaccessible to me. It told me to change the permissions in Get Info. This I did, and then everything appeared as it should.
So... I got it done.... but I still want to know why Wife Account on one computer could not access things in the identical Wife Account on the other computer.
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