Mac mail handling of gmail in 10.9.2

Am trying to set up my MBP after Genius reinstalled OS. Now MacMail will not work without restoring all my previous emails. Recent listing shows 20,000 messages but restore tops out at 211,000 and system hangs up during process...willl not allow me to use MacMail til all imported.
Am trying to initialize MS Outlook 2011 on my system and it won't start as well...am locked out of my system.
MBP is becoming more of a boat anchor over last 60 days with 3 full restores and still no access to computer!
I am becominig less and less of an Apple fan with this continuing issue.
Any suggestions?
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Hello again, WZZZ,
Here's an update. I was successful in creating two partitions on my internal drive, and in installing OS 10.6.6 on the second partition, as per your guidence. I now have it up to 10.6.8 with all the security updates and AppleWorks. A great thing.
Some thoughts:
• The partitioning had one hitch; it failed at first. But once I "repaired" the disc with Disc Utility the partitioning went thru.
• The partitioning took a long time in 'resizing the partition.' A few hours I think it was. Lots of progress bar watching.
• If I had it to do again, I'd size the two partitions differently. My original data was occupying about 230 Gb of the 320 Gb disc. I made the new partitions share the space, about 230 and 75Gb. That left very little available space for the main disc. I ought to have put some breathing room in there. As it is, it's an incentive to clean up all those files, especially all those iTunes files. I now have about 10% of available space there and mean to continue deleting.
So, all in all a good project that got me where I wanted to go. Thank you for your help.
Appreciatively,
wallah

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