Upgrade from Panther: Mail - "Preparing to import messages", 10 minutes now

Mail has been sitting at this point for the last 10 minutes.
What shall I do?
Beavis2084

It seems Tiger lost my Mail files. I restored from backup, then started Mail again. It imported in less than 1 minute, then started up normally.
Beavis2084

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