Restoring old TBird profile manually.

My old TBird stuff is backed up on an external drive. My internal drive crashed. I've been trying to restore my old profile for three weeks now, but can't. None of the instructions I've come across are working for me. I don't even know what a profile is exactly or where it is. Is it the folder with random characters that ends in .default? Is it the folder inside that one -- named Mail? Is it one of the two folders inside the Mail folder named Local Folder or incoming.verizon.net? Or both of those? Not that it matters. I've experimented by copying all of those folders and pasting them in, and nothing takes.
On another note, I think it's a disgrace how complicated this operation appears to be, and I'm a fairly smart guy. That this can't be done with two or three clicks with copy and paste or drag and drop just as easy as I can drop a folder of backed up Word docs, for example, into my documents files is absurd, and inexcusable. I'll say it again -- it's a disgrace.

So I successfully uploaded my old TBird emails a few days ago, as I indicated in my last post to this thread and mostly thanks to a youtube video I discovered (youtube link provided above) --- but after a few days, a new problem developed -- and I have no idea why this new problem is happening, or how to go about fixing it.
A few days after restoring my old TBIrd profile and old TBird emails, I had to do a system restore to my PC for reasons unrelated to TBird. I'm using Windows 32 bit Vista. I set the restore point for a few days before I recently successfully restored my older profile TBird emails.
After the system restore took effect, my old profile TBird emails -- recently restored -- were now gone. I didn't understand why, because system restore is not supposed to affect files, but I wasn't too concerned, because I had finally figured out how to restore the old TBird emails and I reasoned that I could do it again -- and in just a few minutes time -- and with three or four mouse clicks. Which I did. But not successfully.
When I restored my old TBIrd emails for the second time, only the emails that were moved into folders, along with those folders, were restored. I had a lot of other emails -- loose emails, I'll call them -- that were in in the inbox, but not moved into any specifically created folders -- and those loose emails did not appear when I restored my old TBird profile this second time around. Now I'm stumped. Any ideas? I don't even know where to look, or how to phrase the search for help with this one.
Thanks again.

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