Recovering Snow Leopard notes from non-root mail folders.

I knew this was an issue and it was one of the things holding me back from updating my primary machine, but yesterday in a fit of forgetfulness when I upgraded some other software to my machine was more ready to move up to 10.8, I forgot about figuring out this issue and upgraded. Now I'm in a bit of a pickle trying to undersand how everything fits together and how I can make it work as desired.
The sort statement of the problem: In Mail.app from Mac OS X 10.6.8 I had a bunch of yellow "notes" stored in a variety of folders, both "On My Mac" as well as on various IMAP servers. These notes are not available from iOS or Mail.app on Mac OS X 10.8.2, except for those stored in the inbox of my iCloud account. How do I access them?
My understanding of "notes" in Mail.app from 10.6.8 is that they are merely a "special" email message that can be edited, and thus are easily stored on a mail server (IMAP and other protocols perhaps?) or in a local folder. With Mac OS X 10.8, I don't know if this format changed, but in any case, Mail.app no longer pays any attention to these files, and leaves them to Notes.app to deal with, but Notes.app does not traverse the regular mail folder hierarchy and so does not find the old notes. Is this understanding correct?
Does anyone know how I can access these old notes, stored in mail folders like "On my mac" > "Domestic" > "Finances" > "Bank of Bob". I have probably two or three dozen of these notes with records of phone numbers, contact names, transaction information, etc. They were very useful to have nicely stored next to related email messages, and don't know how I will best deal with no longer having them in one place, but first I need to find them all in the first place!
I suppose I might be able to fire up a copy of Mac OS X 10.6 and use it Mail.app from there to search through all the IMAP servers and recover/move the notes to iCloud's IMAP top level, and maybe do the same for those "On my mac" - but it would be nice if I could do it all within Mac OS X 10.8.
Any ideas?
- johann

OK, you all solved my problem (or at least part). How did you do it? By making me wait. Today I opened up Notes and it said something like "Hey, you've got a bunch of notes on your local machine - should I upload them to iCloud?" It then proceeded to move all of the notes in the various local folders up to matching named folders in iCloud.
I still have notes in subfolders on some IMAP servers that are MIA, so if you have any idea how to access to them in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, feel free to pipe up.

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