Gmail IMAP on Mail 3 - Need Help

I have set up Gmail IMAP to use with Apple Mail and I am multiple questions -- please help!
1. Under Mailboxes -- I have Inbox which one would think would have all my email from Gmail. And There is another option termed "Gmail" which has all the IMAP folders. Under the "All Mail" section it shows that I have almost double the messages than what I have on my Inbox. I don't really know why it is separate like this and with the number of emails are different.
2. As I am composing a message -- the "Mail Activity" window on the bottom list keeps saying sending msg to "whoever I am composing the msg to". This happens about 6-7 times depending on the length of my message. One of my friends ended up getting 6-7 emails from me with one line each. Why does it do that?
3. It seems that IMAIL is quite slow with the GMAIL IMAP server. Does anyone else notice this?
4. Is there like a comprehensive guide to GMAIL IMAP on IMAIL that I can read and familiarize myself with all aspects?
5. Can i get additional mail templates from somewhere?
Thanks to all who help me figure all this out. I am a recent switch from Windows and trying to figure everything out.

Take a look at some of the links under the "Learn More" section on Gmail's help site:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12806
They also have some recommended settings for Mail:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892&topic=12815

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