Gmail in Apple Mail 4 (Snow Leopard)

Having major problems setting up my Gmail account in Apple Mail 4 on my new Mac Book Pro Snow Leopard OS. It just won't connect to the Gmail server. Anyone else having this problem? Anyone know a way round it?

I tried dig imap.gmail.com, and i got the following:
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> imap.gmail.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17149
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imap.gmail.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
imap.gmail.com. 82 IN CNAME gmail-imap.l.google.com.
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 82 IN A 74.125.79.109
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 82 IN A 74.125.79.111
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
l.google.com. 37158 IN NS f.l.google.com.
l.google.com. 37158 IN NS g.l.google.com.
l.google.com. 37158 IN NS a.l.google.com.
l.google.com. 37158 IN NS b.l.google.com.
l.google.com. 37158 IN NS d.l.google.com.
l.google.com. 37158 IN NS e.l.google.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.l.google.com. 37199 IN A 74.125.53.9
b.l.google.com. 37457 IN A 74.125.45.9
d.l.google.com. 37448 IN A 74.125.77.9
e.l.google.com. 37460 IN A 209.85.137.9
f.l.google.com. 37385 IN A 72.14.203.9
g.l.google.com. 37448 IN A 74.125.95.9
;; Query time: 65 msec
;; SERVER: 195.235.113.3#53(195.235.113.3)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 21 08:27:34 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 290
I also tried repairing disk permission (disk utility), but i still can't get my mail in my inbox. any suggestion???

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I'm aware this subject isn't new but still I find no solutions ....
Hence, very many thanks to anyone who will help me to solve this substantial problem
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I tried to set up Snow Leopard Mail following every single help tread here and at other websites. None of which seems to work properly, and the variety of "helps" simply tells me there is no "sound" system to use Snow Leopard with the current Apple Email set-up.
Yet "randomly" Mail will stop loading my "me.com" mail opening an error message telling me the "me.com" certificate is no longer trustable.ù
I instructed Apple Mail to "trust" the certificate, but this option does not work, or at least only works randomly.
Mails also never recognizes and loads messages from my other suffix adresses. It enters in an endless connection asking to verify either my User or pass, to finally put these accounts offline. Using Safari with my user and pass (the same as in Apple Mail) everythings works well.
More: if I am working on something else (Long Photoshop Actions, Final Cut Pro rendering and more), this window message halts everything.
This problem is serious, as I usually performed this work at night. or when I don't need to stare at a screen doing nothing.
I erased my computer with the 32 zero pass options and reinstalled the original Snow Leo system (MAC OS X 10.6.2) and this problem vanishes.
As soon as I update with the Combo Upgrade the problem begins again.
My upgrades are always "fresh updates" both as a direct update from the apple menu/Software update, or downloading the combo as dmg to then install.
The result is exactly the same.
I received a fresh copy from the local Apple Store in case my original had some magical problems, but nothing changed.
Yet I can't simply use SL 10.6.2 (the original software I got with the Machine) as many programs I paid for require the latest Snow Leopard.
While I could use another drive with SL 10.6.2, just for the Mail, is really a problem to reboot, to reboot again to continue my work.
In my heart I certainly believe email these days is a "public service" especially after paying thousand dollars over the years, and Apple policy to force user to purchase their latest machines and or, waste time to reconstruct their previous work to adpat it to their industrial policy is simply not fair.
While I understand and support advances in technology and so on, I believe this going forward shouldn't be done at the expenses of the customers, but "freedom of choice" is parts of all constitution as introduced centuries ago in the US.
I read in various site Apple was planning a Snow Leopard 10.6.9 version, but so far nothing happened. Maybe this project was dismissed.
Loosing important emails is a superior problem for my work.
I "have" to use Snow Leopard because I need the Rosetta function Apple discontinued in Lion and Mountain Lion.
Some readers might dislike this post, yet I used Apple since Apple II, I bought at least 100 machines since, I went through the various software/hardware changes, with ease. I believe my current anger is legitimate.
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You'll have to pardon my ignorance of some computer terminology; I'm a retired manager and not a computer technician, hence my muddling up of client and server terminology.
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