Strange number next to Mail Inbox

I cannot seem to remove the number 4294967290 that has started appearing as a label next to my mail Inbox.  I am using Other mail (Eudora) and POP.  I have deleted/re-installed the account several times, re-booted several times but the label keeps re-appearing.  Seems to have started when a friend sent me several very large photo files.  My iPod froze while trying to download but eventually, after a re-boot, all the photos downloaded.  Not sure if this had anything to with this.
My mail works fine just annoying to see this label.  Am curious what this means and if I should do anything about it.
I also have an iPad using same mail account and the Inbox does not have such a number label.
Any suggestions/help is appreciated.

I should add that this is an iPod Touch.
I also now notice that the number appears to indcate incoming mails.. That is to say that when new mail arrives the number increases by the number of new mails.  It then reverts back after I open the new mails.

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    OK - did that - worked like a charm. The file became a folder, at least acc. to its icon, once I dropped the extension. Tried the Import function again, and this time it allowed me to highlight/choose it - but response was "Error: No valid (null) files were found."
    Note, however, that the real problem could be the
    size of the mbox file within the
    INBOX.mbox package, which you haven’t
    reported.
    You're right - because I didn't know the size (or more precisely, didn't know how to tell the size). But I just figured out I should do Command I, and so acc. to that, the size of < .mbox > (in the newly-renamed INBOX folder, the old INBOX.mbox now on my desktop) is 1.4MB. Just in case this info is needed, the size of the < Incoming_Mail > file in the folder is 52.6MB, and the size of the whole folder is 54.5MB.
    In any case, DON’T delete the old INBOX.mbox.
    There are more things to try if you cannot import
    your old messages directly into Mail.
    I figured as much.
    At the very least, you could use a text editor to look at the
    contents of the mbox file where your messages
    are stored.
    If that means clicking directly on those files, I did, and it read like, well, a lot of programming language that I don't understand, though I did see some recognizable text interspersed throughout.
    As to the subject of the posts, as long as it
    describes the issue being discussed, I wouldn’t
    change it unless there is a mistake you want to fix.
    OK - thanks for clearing that up.
    As I've been writing this, I check back to the Import command - which once I clicked "Okay" to the Error message, I assumed would quit. But in fact, its wheel still spinning, I clicked on the forward arrow, and lo and behold, the mbox dumped all its contents into my current Mail program! When the download was completed, I got a message saying there'd be an "mbox" folder in the "On Your Mac" mailbox - which oddly enough, I did not see (it used to be there but is no longer visible, if at all existent). No matter - there is now an "Import" mailbox listed amongst all the others, and in that were two sub-mailboxes: "Incoming Mail" -- empty; and "mbox," full with everything I'd been looking for.
    So - at the end of it all - thank you and thank you again for all your help. Never thought Barcelona would be the answer to my data reco problems.
    best wishes,
    Julie

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