How to mark messages as unread (Gmail)

I just got a hold of my iPhone and have synced my gmail account to the phone. When I synced the phone with the cpu it read that there were a lot of messages that were unread on the phone but read on the account. I wanted to know how I could do something like choose all the unread emails and mark them as read (on the iphone though). I hope that this makes sense. Look forward to the input.

Austin,
There currently is no way to select all unread email on the iPhone and mark them as read. But as khower said, you can set up your Gmail account as IMAP on your computer and your iPhone. That way, when you read a message on your computer, on the web (through webmail) or on your iPhone, all other devices connecting to that mail account will see the message has already been read and will mark it appropriately.
For more information about setting up your Gmail account on your iPhone please take a look at these articles:
[Enable IMAP for your Gmail account|http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77695]
[Set up IMAP Gmail account on iPhone|https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77702]
Hope this helps,
Jennifer B.

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