2 accounts on Mail

I am trying to set up 2 different accounts on Mail. One is a .mac account, the other is a POP account run through a Microsoft Exchange server. Both accounts work fine by themselves on seperate computers. However, when I set them up on one iBook neither work properly. I am setting up both accounts exactly as they are set up on their seperate computers.
What I would like to be able to do is to go to a wi-fi hotspot and be able to download both accounts...seperatly or together, it does not matter.
I am using Mail 2.1 in Tiger.

Not sure why accessing both accounts with Mail on the same Mac would make any difference and I wasn't aware that is is possible to access an Exchange account as a POP type account.
What is not working properly with either account?

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Delete and re-create the account in Mail as an IMAP type account. All server stored messages in the account's Inbox mailbox will be available again in the account's Inbox mailbox and after sending a message with the newly created IMAP account which will create a new Sent mailbox for the account, you can transfer the old sent messages from the "On My Mac" location mailbox to the new Sent mailbox for the account so no messages will be lost.

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You must enable POP forwarding for the account preferences via webmail access for the account.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20041110192454841
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Unless Hotmail is required under EU law to provide their full service free of charge, you'd have to have a paid Hotmail account to be able to send and receive email with Mail.
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Where I am right now. I deleted everything including my library/mail folder.
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