Help requested on IMAP/email migration

I'm looking for some advice.
I've been using my Gmail via both webmail and POP via Apple Mail for more than the last year on my Powerbook.
I've got god-knows-how-many emails filed away in a logical folder hierarchy on the machine (which I prune and delete from), while I leave the contents of the Gmail webmail pretty much alone (even less-necessary emails) and regard as an online failsafe backup should I need an old/deleted email, as well as an away-from-the-desk solution (via mobile or others' computers). I've had my client choose not to delete messages after downloading them from the server.
I just recently got a new Macbook and was planning on finding a way to migrate my Mail.app mailboxes from the Powerbook to the new machine. Not having got around to doing this, I've been using the webmail interface solely and have become quite fond of this over and above using a Mail.app bloated with years' worth of mail. Now Gmail has IMAP support and I'm keen to scope things out vis-a-vis an integrated experience...
What's the best thing for me to do/setup for me to have all round... ?
- I was thinking of creating the new Gmail account as IMAP on the new Macbook, then migrating my old mailboxes from the Powerbook in to Mail.app so that they would get synced back up to the webmail interface with my folder hierarchy mirrored as labels. Would this work/be good?
- In order to do this, seems I first (on setting up the IMAP account in Mail.app) need to download all mail from Gmail. To which end, Mail.app is currently a hive of activity, downloading hundreds of messages and otherwise communicating with the server. I'm not entirely sure what's going on (nearly 3,000 new messages currently in Mail.app so far apparently).
- Whatever, if, after this process is complete, I replace these newly created mailboxes in Mail.app with the old mailboxes from my Powerbook's Mail.app (with the preferred folder hierarchy), will they then be deleted from my webmail, where they have safely nestled for the last year as a repository?
- Should something go wrong and I end up overwriting my webmail Gmail by moving any local mail on to it, is there a way I can backup my Gmail webmail as it is now?
How can I best preserve both sets of mail?
And what on earth am I doing?

Hey Rich.  Once in 'settings,' there should be a "days to sync' under the 'data usage' section.   You don't have that?

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