Initial Mail Setup for Old AOL Address

BACKGROUND
I have an AOL e-mail address. Until recently, I logged on to the AOL application and retrieved my e-mail that way (I had never used the Apple Mail application). AOL recently allowed their users to get rid of AOL as their ISP and so not use the AOL application, but at the same time to retain their e-mail address. So I got rid of AOL as my ISP and moved to a local cable company.
QUESTION
I still have my AOL e-mail address. I can easily access the e-mail to this address by logging onto AOL.com and going to the e-mail section.
1) Can I also use Apple's Mail to access this e-mail address?
2) If so, how do I set it up? The Mail setup routine is filled with (to me) unreadable techo-gibberish (by the way, I did get a degree in computer science back in the day). My specific questions are (when setting up Mail):
- what Account Type do I want (POP, IMAP, Exchange)? The help files tell me to ask my ISP, which doesn't help me much.
- then (if I guess on Account Type), Mail asks for Incoming Mail Server. Again, I don't know what they're asking for.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
iMac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

You may find AOL Service Assistant - Internet Utilities the simplest way to set up your AOL account for Mail.
Believe it or not, it is a fairly well written, OS X-savvy application. It is also the only simple way to get any saved mail out of AOL's proprietary "Personal Filing Cabinet" format or contacts out of it's proprietary Address Book format.
You can choose to configure any of the four Apple apps its supports individually, but if you choose to import old AOL email, you must configure a Mail account for AOL at the same time. Because of this, I recommend not using the manual method from http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/applemail.html to set up the account, because you may end up with two email accounts. I would also first make backup copies of Mail's pref file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist) & the main Mail docs folder (~/Library/Mail) just in case something weird happens.
If you have a lot of saved AOL mail, the import process can take quite a while, so give it at least say, 10 minutes per 100 messages, before deciding it isn't responding -- there is a progress bar but it doesn't move for minutes at a time. Also, the account settings it installs may be slightly different from the ones in the unofficial guide -- basically, it installs the SSL settings the guide mentions. The included Read Me has more info about that.
I have used this app with Mail & with Address Book & it does work with Mail 2.x & Os 10.4.7.

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