Every few weeks my password keeps getting rejected

Hey all,
I have a couple of gmail accounts and when using the Mail app, every few weeks my password comes back as rejected. I can log onto the accounts fine through a web browser so I know the passwords are still good.
Here's the weird thing. After googling, I found some threads on other mac-related boards where people were having similar issues and found a solution: I need to turn off this thing called Captcha (sp?) and then everything works fine again.
Does anybody know what this is and why it would need to be turned off every few weeks?

For G-Mail, this is the link I use:
https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

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