Rebuilt (huge) inbox, now showing 0 messages- did I overwrite it?

For the past few months, mail (1.3.11) on my powerbook 12" g4 has been displaying a message for new messages downloaded that said something like, "this message can not be displayed, because it has not been downloaded from the server. please reconnect to the...."
However, the messages were there (available whether or not the computer was connected to the internet), so all I had to do was quit out of mail and restart it, and the messages would show up (I attributed it to having a huge inbox and a 40GB hard drive).
This morning, I got that message for every message (new or old), and couldn't get any messages to show by restarting mail (sender/subject lines still showed up).
So, I tried to rebuild the inbox, but now it shows 0 messages (0 bytes).
I would appreciate any help in:
- determining whether or not I somehow overwrote my inbox
- recovering anything that might be recoverable
Thanks!
(please note that this only affects the inbox- all my other mail folders are still accessible).

I, too, had the same problem as above so I was thrilled to see your response.
Apparently I do not have a file named "Envelope Index" anywhere on my computer (I did a search), much less in the Library/Mail folder. Even so, I moved the Library/Caches/Mail folder to the Desktop and rebooted, hoping that alone would fix things, even if I couldn't move Library/Mail/Envelope Index to the Desktop.
It did not work.
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