Constantly rebuilding Mail

Here's the deal:
I used Entourage for a long time but with my new MacBook I decided to give Mail a try.
It's good, but I'm having a problem that I can't solve, so I'm thinking on going back to Entourage.
I manage 4 POP accounts.
The first one is my company e-mail. So, since the pop server (10.x.x.x) is inside my company network, I have to change when I'm at home (pop.mycompany.xxx)
The second is the oposite. It is my home pop server. (10.x.x.x) when I'm at home and (pop.myhomeserver.com) when I'm at work.
The third is an external account, that I never need to change the server.
The fourth is my .mac account that also works fine.
So the problem is the 2 first accounts.
Probably because I keeping changing the pop server, Mail is having trouble to "save" my messages at the inbox. Messages keep disapering and I need to constantly rebuild the two accounts.
Anyone had this problem or can help me with an insight of how to solve this issue?
Thanks!
Neto

In the Finder, go to HOME/Library/Mail/. You'll see several folders whose name starts with POP, followed by an account username and the corresponding incoming mail server. These are the account folders Mail uses to store the mailboxes of each of the accounts (and the messages within them). Now you can see why changing either the account username or the incoming mail server is a really bad idea.
What I don't understand is, if those accounts are actually different and they use different usernames and/or incoming mail servers, why don't you just set up a different account in Mail for each one? Why do you make all of this so convoluted? I really don't get it.

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