Setting up Mail in Lion, Import Rules

So I'musing a new MacBook Pro with Lion preinstalled while my Mac with Snow Leopard is being repaired.
I'm going to manually add all my email accounts in Mail, but wanted to import the Message Rules I had created under Snow Leopard.
One problem I noticed if I brought in the MessageRules plist file the rules would not automatically apply to the message on the Lion machine only on the SL Mac.
I'd have to close mail and then open the message.
My rules pretty much just change the color of the message to indicate where its from, etc.
Is there a simple straight forward approach of importing the Mail Message Rules from a Snow Leopard Mac to a Lion Mac (without of course using Migration Assistant, etc).
Thanks!

Holding option will get you into the recovery drive but your friend would definitely have needed to give you more instructions than that to take that course. Lets start next to the , go Mail>preferences>Accounts. On the left, is iCloud listed there? If it is can you remove it with the "-" button at the bottom? If not, can you add it with the "+"?
Try that and see if you can manually add it. When it asks for authentication use your Apple email address (@icloud.com, or @me.com) and the normal password for your AppleID. Let me know if that works for you!

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