Lion - Mail Program hanging up

Almost every time I send out an email in MAIL the actual program hangs up. On opening 'force quit' it says 'program not responding' so I force quit, then reopen MAIL. When I do that, I find the message has actually been sent, but the window with the message is still open.
Someone suggested I change the MAIL preferences - so MAIL>preferences>viewing - checked the box 'use classic layout' and now the program works fine. So far, I prefer the old classic layout, and found the new one a jumble.
And I hate the greyed out icons on the top of this new mail program. Lets have some color here.

What type of account is this (POP, IMAP, .Mac)? What
are your Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox
Behaviors > Trash settings?
Account type is POP. I just noticed that my .Mac box seems to be OK. But my regular email has like 2,000 messages there. I think I just found the problem, someone in my household changed the settings and unchecked the move deleted messages to a separate folder.
Thanks

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