Does anybody have any tips to make iMessages run smoother?

I have an iMac and the iPhone 4. I have recently upgraded to mountain Lion and as such recieved messages a great feature in my opinion. However it's a bit fiddly. Some examples of things I would like help with:
1: I can only recieve imessages on my mac from people I have messaged from the mac. So if I start a conversation with someone on the mac, I speak to them on the mac but if somebody imessages me it will only to my phone, if I then open a conversation with them on the mac app all thier future messages will go to both my mac and my phone.
2. If I start a conversation on my mac then switch my mac off and continue the conversation on my phone when I turn my mac back on I get a load of notifications for all the messages I have already read on my phone.
3. Is there a way to get all the people who are in my contact list that have iMessage facilities into a buddie list?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Any links to good articles and videos on the subject would be great.

Yeah I have done that already thank you. I can get messages from my mac on my phone. But say I was having a conversation on my phone in work with someone and then came home to my mac and opened messages it would not be on my mac unless I had previously spoken with somebody on the mac before.
If I had spoken on the mac with the person before then I will get a notification for every message they sent me while on my phone.
Make sense?

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