Configuration could not be verified - My username and password are correct!

I am trying to add a second gmail account to Thunderbird, but without success. The first addition went flawlessly.
Now that I'm attempting the second, I am confronted with the error message "Configuration could not be verified - is the username or password wrong?"
Answer = no. I have verified them by logging into gmail.com with IE several times, and made sure to log out afterwards to ensure no conflict. I do not use two-step verification with either accounts. I have tried to 'fool' google's email servers by capitalizing the outgoing SMTP letters (so as to differentiate from the previous login smtp letters), but thunderbird does not permit capitalization.
I have not found any other *solved* forum posts that can help me with this problem. I'm running Windows 8.1 and Thunderbird 31.2.0.
This is a call for help.

Same problem for me, too. It happens on my iPad, iPhone, and iMac. Weird because I have great Internet connectivity and I can log into and view my iTunes account. I've downloaded three new apps with no problem. But my iPad shows 14 apps needing updates, my iPhone shows 2, and my iMac shows 1. In all cases, clicking on "update" and entering the password results in the message, "Cannot connect to iTunes Store". It's the same result across multiple WiFi networks, even after resetting them.
I'll see if someone at the Genius Bar can help and then I will repost.

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I have tried installing, uninstalling, reinstalling Thunderbird five times now. Each time I go through the set up of an existing email account (since it WAS working for like 2 years until suddenly yesterday it wouldn't retrieve messages no matter what I tried). Contacted my hosting company to no avail. I can log into my webmail account through them (myurl.com/webmail) using my user name and password just fine.
When I go through set up, I click use an existing account then manual configuration because the outgoing mail port the host uses is 25 and my user name is the full email address, not just the first part of it. I get the error that says "Configuration could not be verified - is the username or password wrong?" No. Neither. I've reentered it probably 20 times. Using IMAP not POP. Always used IMAP.
The computer this is happening on is running Windows 8. I tried installing it on a laptop at home that is running Windows 7 and everything worked fine. Like I said, this was working fine until yesterday. This Windows 8 computer is a 64-bit operating system, x-64 based processor.
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