"On My Mac" account inbox deleted

This a question concerning my wife's Mac - she's using 10.3.9 on a PowerMac G4. She is using Mail 1.3.11.
We think she deleted the "On My Mac" account that is listed under the "In" mailbox. As she recalls, she was trying to delete something in Address Book, got that app mixed up with Mail, and probably deleted "On My Mac" instead. In any case, it is no longer there.
She has an email account inbox which indicates 88 messages in it, but when she selects the account inbox icon, there are no messages listed. I have sent her email to that account, and the message count increases, but no mail shows in its inbox. Also, this account is showing the triangular icon that indicates a subfolder, but there has never been a subfolder for that email account, and none shows up when the folder is opened.
We got desperate and tried to create a new "On My Mac" mailbox, but it doesn't put it under "In", it places it at another level.
Any suggestions? Would "Rebuild" help in any way?

I've been using the Mail.app exclusively since Jaguar was introduced, thru Panther and now Tiger and I've never had an "On My Mac" named mailbox under "In" in the mailboxes drawer.
The only place an "On My Mac" named mailbox should be located is under Trash which is created automatically by Mail and used when selecting a message for deletion that is located in a user created "On My Mac" mailbox.
I don't know how the "On My Mac" named mailbox became available under "In" but since you cannot create mailboxes under "In" in the mailboxes drawer. Mailboxes under In, Drafts, Sent, and Junk are account named mailboxes only and are created automatically by Mail when the function is used by an email account.
She has an email account inbox which indicates
88 messages in it, but when she selects the account
inbox icon, there are no messages listed.
If a POP type account, using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > this account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account).
Within a POP type account named folder should be the following mailboxes in mbox format as follows:
INBOX.mbox
Drafts.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
Junk.mbox (If Junk Mail is set to automatic.)
And a MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded file.
There should be no folders.
Before making any changes, post back listing what is available within this account named folder.

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