Cannot sync mail accounts?!?!

Hi All,
So i put Lion on my Mac Pro and my Macbook Pro yesterday, (i also have OS5 on iphone4S) - but i'm having a hard time getting my email accounts to stay synced/consistent with each other.
E.g - when i send a mail from my mac pro, i would like to see that mail in the sent folder on all 3 devices. Similarly, i deleted a mailbox folder on my mac pro mail, yet on my macbook pro mail the folder was still there.
(I'm coming from mobileme, if that makes any difference)
All i want is for my mail to be consistent across my 3 devices, so that when i send/move/ etc emails then all my devices stay consistent with each other.
I have turned icloud on on all 3 devices, and selected 'mail & notes' on them all.
Am i doing something wrong? Is it not possible to keep these 3 consistent and the same?
Thank you for any help or advice,
Elastic

same problem here. Mac Mail on Lion doesn't seem to stay synced with iCloud mail very well....

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