Lion Mail help

I recently did a complete new clean install of Lion due to problems with wifi continuosly disconnecting, which always required a reboot. Well, the clean install (vs. the upgrade I originally did) didn't help at all with wifi but it did cause me a few problems in Mail 5.2. When I set up Mail for my AT&T Yahoo e-mail account, it would not let me set it up manually; it automatically set it up as an imap account; this account works (sort of) but it will not display all my HTML e-mails correctly. All images will not display in about one third or more of my e-mails and the formatting of some really gets funky. I have tried deleting the account to see if I can set it up as a POP account, but Lion seems to want to do everything automatically. If anyone is familiar with this issue or knows how I can set up my at&t yahoo account as a POP (I have the correct servers, etc., just can't find a way to enter them) I sure would appreciate it!
Larry Spearman, Columbia, SC
Oh well, I found another thread that solved my issue, so thanks anyway but it's fixed now.

In the Add Account dialog, enter the information, then hold down the option key and click Continue. Finish setting up the account manually.

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