Mail.app sycs with one Gmail account, won't with another

I've searched throughout the forum and couldn't find anything (although a ton of issues with Mail/Gmail exist).
Today is the first time I've had an issue with Gmail connecting to Mail.app, however, I have two Gmail accounts, yet my main one will not connect. Here's the error message:
"+Logging in to the Gmail IMAP server “imap.gmail.com” failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue. If the information isn’t correct, you cannot receive messages+."
I check my login/password, and it's correct. I can login to Gmail using Firfox and Chrome. My secondary account can receive and send in Mail.app, but nothing in the primary.
Anyone have an idea?

I just downloaded Thunderbird and tried to setup my primary Gmail account, and TB has issues logging in, saying the password is invalid, yet it's the same password that I use when I login in a browser, whatever the browser may be. Here's the setup window with the error, and anything else that may be relevant (I have absolutely no knowledge of mail anything; POP, IMAP, all that jazz is pure Latin to me):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/pacokorn77/thunderbirderrormessage.png
Sorry for the link, but I'm not familiar with the forum code here to embed an image (if it's at all possible).
My Mail app on my iPhone works just fine, sending and receiving, but any desktop client I use kicks back a login issue, so it looks to be on Google's end, but I can't be certain.

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