Inbox full on Sent Mail (gmail)

After updating to OSX 10.5.6, and getting over the initial problem of having no visible inbox, i got things straightened out. Until I decided to sync my gmail account into the Mail app.
After I finished setting up my account preferences, it began to sync all my gmail mail. However, i realized that it was bringing all my sent mail from my gmail account as new mail in my inbox.
anyone ever seen this happen?

The problem is because of Gmail's threading setup. What I did is go to Mail -> Preferences -> Rules and create one that moves all mail from yourself into the sent box. Should clean everything up. In addition you can search for all mail from yourself (make sure its just the ones from you) and drag those into your sent folder as well.

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