Mail failing in new and amazing ways

Many questions here and many frustrations.
Running 10.5.6
1: Starting yesterday whenever I open Mail my Gmail account downloads my recent mail just fine. But any time after that the spinning icon next to the account spins forever and it won't download any more mail. The only way to quit the program is by force quitting. It's a POP account. No changes to the mailbox preferences seem to have any effect. Spins forever.
2: I have another computer configured with Mail for 10.4 and it downloads my Gmail with no problems.
3: I created a new POP account and it also doesn't work. And NOW my messages are all over the place. This might be a good time for me to figure out where all these mail messages are stored on my computer and if I have to delete this account will I ever be able to have all my Gmail messages in one account list again?

To further elucidate my problem (and hope that someone replies):
Activity monitor shows that Mail is hanging up on "Fetching New Mail" on two separate and unrelated accounts. Stopping them in the Activity Monitor doesn't work, it tries to stop interminably.
Connection doctor shows that for both of these accounts: "Connection and login to server succeeded."
Cannot quit the program normally. Must force quit, and again, upon restarting Mail successfully downloads recent mail, then hangs on the fetch the second time around.

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