Restored mail account and subject shows up but no content

I was having problems with my e-mail not getting delivered 100% correctly and I was looking for the problem. I use Mail and had not had any problems until just the last week or so sporatically. I noticed that I had both a Comcast mailbox and a comcast.net mailbox(same address/account)on my iMac. I decided that may be the root of my problem and further noticed that one mailbox had subject but no content to the message. I decided to delete that account and keep the other account that had all the messages and the content. Unfortunately I stupidly didn't archive the  mailbox.
I moved the mail to the trash, but didn't delete it until I checked to see if the other account was working properly. It seemed to be fine, so I deleted the mailbox. Fast forward until today when I went into Mail to work on a draft I started yesterday. The header was there, but there was no message content for any of my inbox, sent or draft or junk from 3 years of messages.
I do backup my work, so I went to Time Machine and got the plist & mail folder from the day before and it restored perfectly. All the e-mails were there, but there was no content to the messages, just the headers from the last 3 years.
Can anybody tell me if I'm just SOL for the content of those e-mails or if there is a fix I don't know about . Thanks very much in advance
Currently using Snow Leopard 10.6.8

I am having the same behaviour you describe but found that sometimes the contents of the message would be displayed in the preview panel. On other days, the preview panel would be empty (as if there was no text) but it would appear once I open the message (it would appear then in both, the opened window AND the preview panel).
I know you put this down as 'solved' but in my view it's a bug. My way of getting around it is to close mail and reboot the machine...just like in the old days of using Windows.

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