Deleted e-mails come back using a GMail IMAP account

I have Mail 4.1 on SnowLeopard, just configured it with a Gmail IMAP account and received all my 7000+ (yeah, you've read that right, sever THOUSAND plus) emails. Now I would like to delete them, I do so, I close the app and when I launch it back the emails are downloaded again.
I did a little research and double-check the settings as Google recommends for their IMAP config with Mail app (although their configs are for Mail 3.0):
Trash:
Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox > do NOT check
Store deleted messages on the server > do NOT check
I still get them back, those buggers. it is very annoying.
After more research I found some recommendation to delete the com.apple.mail.plist which I did, i rebuild email box and still get the same results (deleting mails, quitting the app and when I launch again I get the deleted massages back).
Is this a problem with Mail 4? It don't recall having it with Mail 3 on Leopard. And I don't recall seeing it as a known bug. What is going on?

I don't know how to edit a previous post, therefore I am posting a reply to myself (grin). I went back to my MacBookPro (with Leopard) and created a brand new user account and configured Mail (different version then the one on Snow Leopard, right?) and I get the same crap: I delete the email and is coming back a few seconds later or upon the re-launch of the Application. Again, the settings are:
Gmail IMAP account
Do not save the deleted messages on the server
Delete upon quitting mail
It is very frustrating. On the MBP I am using Entourage and I didn't want to use any Microsoft products on the new iMac (turns out to be obsolete since yesterday). I seems like I am stuck in the Microsoft World though; how sad!

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