My Mail.app has been reset to default. All mailboxes gone!

I guess some file containing Mail.app settings got corrupted. Now when I open Mail all of my mail accounts/mailboxes are gone!!
Of course I haven't got a backup of my Mail preferences file... sigh
The Mail folder ~/Library/Mail/ still contains all of my mailbox folders.
Please tell me there's some way to get these imported along with the respective server settings. All I can find is "Import Mailbox" but that's not what I want, in that case the imported mailboxes will appear under a folder namned "IMPORTED" - don't want that. I want them back under the main "Inbox".
Heeeelp!
Dual PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 5GB RAM, Dual Maxtor 250GB 16MB Cache

Hello Daniel.
Do the following.
Quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Delete the com.apple.mail.plist file.
Note: Deleting or moving the com.apple.mail.plist out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information the same as before, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailboxes at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder from the Desktop.
And now is the time to backup the new com.apple.mail.plist file with the Mail.app quit when doing so. If this happens again (which it shouldn't happen often - I've never experienced the same with Jaguar, Panther or Tiger), you can replace the existing com.apple.mail.plist file with a good working copy from your backup with the Mail.app quit before doing so. This won't require re-entering all email account information.
What is your hard drive capacity and available free space or if the hard drive is partitioned, your boot volume capacity and available free space where your Home folder/directory is located?

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