Gmail continuously checking for new mail!

this is a very perplexing problem and i have searched forums for how to fix it but as i don't quite know what to call the problem, i haven't found any solutions yet!
i just got a new iMac and proceeded to set up my two gmail accounts with mac mail. one works perfectly fine, the other, for some reason unbeknown to me seeing as both were set up in the exact same way, the second gmail account is stuck continuously checking for new mail with the loading circle next to it.
i have tried deleting the account and adding it again several times, as well as restarting my computer and mail. i have tried taking the account offline and then connecting again but nothing has worked so far.
the settings are EXACTLY the same as the first gmail account that works fine. both are set to IMAP and as i didnt get the option to manually set up an account when i added them, they were both set up automatically by the mac mail app.
it might be helpful to note that i have the same two accounts set up on my macbook with mail 3.6 and they both work fine, so it is not a problem with my gmail account. (however on the macbook they are set up as POP not IMAP.. but i dont see an option to change that in mail 4.2)
PLEASE HELP! as i am very frustrated i cannot work this out on my own. not sure what other information you need but please just let me know if you need to see a screencap or something.
many thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

FWIW:
Apple Mail 4.0 and Snow Leopard seem to have multiple issues, rather long threads that follow (see links), but some users with multiple Gmail accounts have tried different solutions: best of luck.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=15f2852996dedf1f&hl=en
Also:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=776735
One guy notes:
+Possible Solution Found+
+Ok, I think I may have figured something out here....+
+I use IMAP as stated earlier.+
+I started from scratch with my gmail accounts in mail 4.0.+
+I hit Mailbox > Take all accounts offline.+
+Then created my 2 gmail accounts, following gmail's support page I unchecked all the options on the Mailbox Behaviors tab.+
+I used [email protected] for the username, not just the first part of my email, i.e. [email protected] This is also suggested in the gmail help guide, but mail doesn't set it up this way.+
+I forced my SMTP port to 587 in mail's setting instead of just having it use "standard ports 25, 465, 587"+
+I created both accounts, set those options, and hit take all mailboxes online. Mail seems to be downloading my messages from gmail smoothly so far for both accounts at the same time.+

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Report Version: 6
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Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
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Thread 17 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x0000003c ebx: 0x936191cf ecx: 0xb04520ac edx: 0x9361967e
edi: 0xa0499f00 esi: 0xb0452108 ebp: 0xb04520e8 esp: 0xb04520ac
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000247 eip: 0x9361967e cs: 0x00000007
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
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