Apple Mail, GMail and Cableone

I see a lot of problems on here with imap/pop and gmail, but not one that addresses my issue so...
Cableone recently "partnered" with google gmail to handle their email. I didn't realize it until I went in to set up a short term email for my husband. I couldn't get it to work and called cableone and was then informed of the new mail changes.
A tech support guy helped me set that account up and all my other emails—we have 7 accounts—and they work fine except my sound doesn't play when I receive mail AND several more boxes are set up at the bottom of my Mail for those imap accounts AND my Dock Mail always says I have double the messages that I actually do have AND my little "clock" next to our email accounts doesn't spin like it used to. Now, these might not be big deals but I want it to work like it should and all of these issues have only shown up when I set them to IMAP.
So this morning I called Cableone and said I want to set our MAIN account back to POP with GMail and let it work for a couple of hours and see what happened. He helped me do this and warned me that I might lose some of my emails and since there weren't any important ones on there I said it wasn't a problem. I am not liking the GMail imap. Since I only set our main house account back to POP and it can be done and work fine, here are my questions:
If I lose some that I've stored on my computer in "On My Mac" can they be retrieved?
And what is the major difference between POP and IMAP and am I safe with it being POP with GMail?

Still need help. I was on the phone with Cableone yesterday and deleted all my email accounts and added them back on with remote access help from them. Worked when they emailed me a test email, but again I'm not getting all my email from them. When I check online I see emails I'm not getting. BUT I am getting all of them on my MacBook Pro. Now, how can that be? I have the iMac and MBP sitting here together and the MBP gets all the emails but iMac doesn't. Does anyone know what I can check to see. MBP runs 10.5.8 and iMac is 10.6.4 is the only difference. This is very frustrating, but surely one of you gurus can think of something. I really don't want to have to change ISPs. Please! TIA

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