Mail and Gmail- archiving issues

Mail doesn't seem to understand the 'archiving' feature of my Gmail account. I'm trying to set up Mail for the first time and my inbox is being flooded with all of my archived emails, and my sent mail. I don't know how to get it to reflect my Gmail account, or whether that's at all possible with Mail.. Is there a way?

Yes.  I'm having a whole series of problems with Mail.app and GMail.  The problems are pretty well documented (links below), but I haven't seen any good fixes or heard any indication that Apple is taking them seriously.
http://www.maclife.com/article/news/os_x_mavericks’_mailapp_not_playing_nice_gma il
http://tidbits.com/article/14219
In addition to archived emails returning to the inbox, I'm seeing significant delays in new mail appearing in my inbox:  sometimes as long as hours after the mail appears on my iPhone and in the GMail web console.

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