help: mail app acts like new install after kernel panic and can't get old mail

[goodmanx]

i leave my macbook (running snow leopard v. 10.6.8) on every night. i awoke a few days ago to my first kernal panic in a year or so. upon restarting, the mail app (v 4.6) acted like a new install, showed only a me.com account and all my accounts were gone. i have another macbook with the same account, so i do have access to those accounts, but i want them on the subject machine, too. also, i have some important notes in mail and i would be most displeased to lose them.

i'll appreciate any assistance in reconstructing my mail app to its state prior to the kernel panic. short of that, i'd like to know how to transfer the mail, etc., from the second macbook to the first one mentioned.

thanx!