Sent emails dissappeared

Hi,
I've let my sent email box get too large and now all the emails have dissappeared. Not realising that all the emails were going into one file, which I now know is the mbox file. My mbox is 1.96Gb,
I've tried updating from Panther to Tiger, tried rebuild and moved the mbox file to another computer to see if that will open it and all the appears are my emails sent in the last 48 hours from when the problem started.
Any help would be very gratefully received as this is driving me mad.

OK, I haven't really tried it, but I've taken a look, and it seems to accomplish the same that importing the old mbox files using the Other import option in Mail 2.0 would. I guess all mail came up as unread and some "deleted" messages could have reappeared as well.
What probably makes this utility useful is that it guides you trough the steps that must be taken, making the transition process to appear simpler, despite it actually being more convoluted. It's a neat and clever way of being able to import mail into any mail client, nevertheless -- provided the old mail is available in mbox format, that is.
BTW, the product is made by Weird Kid Software. Emetrix is the provider of the e-commerce solution they use for their web store.
Thanks for the feedback.

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