Disable .Mac mail account on work computer

I have a PowerBook G4 at my home office and a MacBookPro that my employer has given me for work. I want to use the Mac Mail desktop client on my MacBookPro as my desktop email client, but every time I launch Mac Mail on my MBP, it also downloads my personal email (i.e., mail items stored on my .Mac server/account). I don't want my personal email to automatically download to and appear on my employer's MBP. How do I configure it so that it doesn't automatically download the email that's on my .Mac account/server? Thanks much.
Steps I've taken so far without any success:
-Deleted account from Mail>System Preferences (fails because when I re-start Mail, it just repeats the process, i.e., downloads my personal mail from .Mac)
-Removed my work computer from the registered list of computers that appear under System Preferences>.Mac Account>Advanced

Thanks. That solved the problem temporarily, but when I re-launched the Mail app again, it automatically downloaded all the personal messages from .Mac.
Someone later explained to me that the problem lies more on the .Mac side of things than with the Mail client and told me to do this, which resolved the problem. (see below if you or anyone else is interested.) Thanks again for your help!
Go to System Preferences->.Mac account preference pane and delete all the information there. That is where Mail is finding it.

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INITIATING CONNECTION Dec 17 21:40:48.848 -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x0 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
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+OK Messaging Multiplexor (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007))
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+OK Messaging Multiplexor (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007))
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220 mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007))
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IMPLEMENTATION MMP-6.2p8.04 Feb 28 2007
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CONNECTED Dec 17 21:40:49.662 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc45388cc60 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
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