Old mail folders

After reinstalling Panther I opened a folder called "Old Mail" on my desktop and now I cannot see my recent mail. It shows I have 1 new mail message but when I click on the mail icon at the bottom on the screen (which is where the 1 new message is showing) I just get the old mail which is from 2004. Can this be fixed? Thanks.
Carolyn

Ernie,
thanks for the links.
I'm not sure which mail version I was using, it was under 10.3.(the latest version)
I compared the mail files on my laptop to the mail files on my desktop.
It seems that I'm in trouble.
Using the "INBOX.mbox" as an example, in my laptop files there is a folder called "messages" and inside there are xxx.emix files. On my desktop in the "INBOX.mbox" the "messages" folder is missing. This is the case for all the mail folders saved from the old OS. There are no xxx.emix files to be found.
Fortunately I have most of my received emails backed up also on the laptop.
I'm guessing I can import those. I'll just be missing all my sent emails from the desktop.
The main glitch that occured when installing Tiger is that the 10.4.7 upgrade caused my desktop to not start up past the spinning cog screen. I then re-booted from the install disk and used the utility app to copy the info from the main hard drive to a secondary drive. I did this after the initial 10.4.0 install. I'm guessing that something did not make the transfer? I had to do a clean install to get the computer to work. I hope this makes sense.

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I compared the mail files on my laptop to the mail files on my desktop.
It seems that I'm in trouble.
Using the "INBOX.mbox" as an example, in my laptop files there is a folder called "messages" and inside there are xxx.emix files. On my desktop in the "INBOX.mbox" the "messages" folder is missing. This is the case for all the mail folders saved from the old OS. There are no xxx.emix files to be found.
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You're welcome.
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Were you accessing your old .Mac account as a .Mac type account with Mail and if so, what were/are your settings under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences for Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages - storing these messages on the server or locally on the hard drive?
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You’re welcome.
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