Mail AOL Help

Hello,
I'm having trouble with connecting my AOL account to Mail. Every time I add my account and put in the password, Mail says,
"Mail cannot send your password securely to the server. You can continue without a secured password, which could put your password at risk. Alternatively, you can manually set up your account."
I click continue and the box comes up again and I keep clicking continue.
Finally the Box will close and now I just have the Hazard Triangle next to my Inbox. I click that and it says Unable to Connect Server returned error: LOGIN FAILED. I'm sure I have the right password.
Any ideas?
~Mike

Hello again,
My ISP is Cabelvision not AOL. Sorry for not mentioning that. Next, I just got my laptop back from Apple after my Logic Board broke and many other things went wrong. Before I sent it in for repairs I had 10.5.8 and my Mail worked fine. When the laptop came back they gave me a new HDD and so I decided to just upgrade to 10.6 right when I got it. I did that yesterday. So now whenever I try to add AOL the same issue occurs. For some reason it will download all my Sent Items but the triangle remains near the Inbox and there is another triangle near the AOL (drop down)?. If I click on Saved or Sent Items, they load but the Inbox will not. If there is anything else you need to know just ask.
Thanks again,
Mike
Here are some of the Alerts.
1. The following alerts are from the IMAP server for “AOL”:
Can't read attachment for message 1048
2. The following alerts are from the IMAP server for “AOL”:
Can't read attachment for message 2167
Side Note: I really miss all my lost things. I didn't have a backup of anything because I switched that external HDD back to windows formatting so that the rest of my family could use it.

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