Need to back up email in Tiger so I can access it in Leopard (Apple Mail)

Hello,
I'm currently using Tiger, and I'm in the process of backing up emails, to upgrade to Leopard, and I'm wondering, what's the best way to do this? I am planning to burn all of my backed-up stuff to a DVD. I'm currently using Tiger (10.4.11) which has Apple Mail 2.1.3 installed. The account is a POP (not POP3) account.
My biggest concern here is keeping the emails, but it would be nice to keep my contacts and settings as well.
One option that came to mind was signing up for a Gmail account, forwarding all my emails to it, and then downloading them into Apple mail after Leopard is installed I'm thinking that might be the easiest way, since I doubt that I can back up emails from Tiger and open them again in Leopard.
In summary: Need to back up a POP account's emails from Apple mail in Tiger _*so that I can access them in Leopard*_. I'd also like to know how to back up my address book so that it is Leopard compatible, if possible.
Thanks!
Title of the message was edited by: Gamer4Ever

You will find everything that did not get carried over in the Archive and Install in your hard drive under +Previous System Folder+. Creating a backup DVD is a good idea in any case, although if you have an external firewire drive, cloning/backing it up using SuperDuper! would be even better.
Good luck, and let us know how you like Leopard

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