Moving Mail from Leopard to Tiger

I am another of those who travels with an older powerbook G4 running OS X.4.11. My desktop machine is an iMac Intel running OS X.5.
When I move my email over, I copy the entire Mail folder from the Library as well as the two preference files in the preference folder (mail.plist and mail.searchhistory.plist). However, the first time I go to get my mail on the powerbook, I always get all the messages since I last used the powerbook. I know that this has not always been the case, but I can't remember what else I did to bring mail into the present moment. I know I could delete all messages from my provider's server, and I've done that, but it seems like there should be another way, since I like to keep the messages up there in case I mess up.

This cannot be avoided with your POP accounts, because Tiger's Mail uses a separate MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 file for each POP account folder, but Leopard's Mail uses a single, universal, MessageUidsAlreadyDownload3 file for all accounts. The info in the newer form does not backwardly transfer so as to prevent duplicate downloading of the POP messages.
Ernie

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