Current Mail disapeared...not lost just hiding somewhere

[77sunset]

I have a white iMac G3, 10.3.9, 256MB, 600MHz, Panther and use mac mail.

I was searching for older emails that I had put in a folder in my 'home' account(icon of a little house in the HD) .....
- went into my HD, then to my 'home' account , then went to 'Library',
- clicked on 'Mail' and found the older emails I was looking for.
- When I went back to what I thought was my regular email program it is still showing old emails from different files I backed up and stored in a folder in my 'home' account (the icon with the little house in the hard drive section).

So when I get emails in now, I cannot get to them to read them because I am stuck in this old file. (Inbox.mbox, Sent.mbox, etc.)
What happened? There has got to be a simple way out of this.
I know my current mail is in here somewhere, how do I get back to it?
Thanks!

 

[bearwil]

When you say you have a 'Home' account I assume you work with more accounts and you normally use your e-mail in another account.Maybe you were still in that home account when you opened your Mail. Maybe switching to the account you normally use helps. It's the only logical reason I can think off.