Need to access existing saved emails from new download of Thunderbird within Win 7

I'm an existing user of Thunderbird.
My computer has just been upgraded from XP to Win7
Thunderbird downloaded just fine and is all set up - recognises my email address, IP etc.
Now need to import all my old emails, carefully saved to another directory.
All your articles seem to refer to migration from another product - I simply want to access my existing Thunderbird files, if necessary copying them to the correct directory OR causing Thunderbird to find and then store them where they are.
I'm sure it will be very simple!
Thanks in anticipation
John Wilson

Thanks for this Matt. Hindsight is wonderful. I have fixed the problem but not in the ways you suggest. I'll detail them here in case it helps others. First, I keep all the data safe - so I had all my emails, but couldn't get Thunderbird to look at them. So it wasn't a question of importing, rather of finding a way to point Thunderbird to the correct location. Second, I use MozBackup and when I tried to get things back that way, I did get email addresses, and all my directory headings but no content. So I thought at that point that I was on the right track. Eventually I found that my data was not simply in a directory called....\mail, as I thought, but within that under ....\mail\Local Folders. Simple, in retrospect.
I do recommend MozBackup for both Firefox and Thunderbird.
But I appreciate your efforts to help.

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