Trouble importing mailboxes

I just wound up accidentally deleting one of my important mailboxes. I have a backup of my entire user folder on another HD and I'm trying to import just that mailbox that I deleted.... but it's not working.
I go to File > Import Mailboxes ... and choose "other". Then I navigate to userfolder>library>Mail>Mailboxes and select foldername.mbox
I get "Error, no valid mbox files were found"
I should mention this backup was made using CarbonCopyCloner, but I doubt this is the problem. I hope someone can help as I really need the emails in this folder!
Thanks,
Scott
p.s. I should also mention that this all came about because I renamed the mailbox from within the app which caused the app to keep the old named folder and the new one. I checked them both and only the new one had all of the mail and subfolders in it. So, I deleted the old empty folder. I continued using the app and then went back to the folder which was all of a sudden completely empty!! This seems VERY buggy to me

That Other didn't work was to be expected, but Mail for Mac OS X should work. You haven't provided information as to why it didn't, but I guess it's because you're selecting the wrong folder.
If you read the instructions that Mail displays during the import process, you'll see that it asks for the folder that contains the mailboxes to be imported, not the mailboxes themselves.

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