Mail, IMAP, and Gmail, yet another conundrum.

This has been well publicized and I have even asked about it before, but got no reply. What is the problem with Mail Notes being duplicated in an enormous volume. Is it just the way IMAP works or is it a Gmail thing or just me being the problem not setting up something correctly? I would love to use notes but Mail repeatedly makes copies in my Gmail folder and in my inbox. I just want one copy in my inbox accessible anywhere(e.g. iPhone) without a ton of copies to deal with. I have tried switching some settings around like the "don't store this thing on the server" setting but nothing works.
Any input is welcome
Thanks,
Alex

This is what the folder structure of my IMAP Gmail looks like in Apple Leopard Mail:
MAILBOXES
Inbox (Comment: emails come in here)
Sent
Trash
IMAP Gmail (Comment: that's the title I gave it)
[Gmail]
All Mail
Drafts
Sent Mail
Spam
Starred
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Junk Email
Sent Items
Trash
Incoming emails arrive in the Inbox, just under the words MAILBOXES. Unlike yourself, I do not see any emails coming into the [Gmail] folder.
I have never been asked to accept a certificate.
Don't think this helps you, but it does indicate another Gmail IMAP configuration on Leopard Mail that is not having the same problems as you.

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I've had a yahoo.com email address for years, and pay for Mail Plus and POP3, which I frankly don't even use. Now that I've confirmed, however, that I can successfully forward emails from my yahoo box to my new gmail box, I'd like to look into setting up mail.app for the gmail account using imap. Like most people, I access my mail from several places (home & work computers, Touch, and others), and imap makes sense as the right way to go.
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I'm not sure what your confusion is, other than maybe the confusion between how folders and messages work in Outlook versus Apple Mail and IMAP. I've used both, and several other mail programs over the years.
IMAP permits you to have directories which contain message folders. I make the distinction, because Outlook allows you to message folders which contain messages AND other message folders. I believe most implementations of IMAP do not allow messages inside of directories. Thus, a directory looks like a message folder, but it may only contain message folders, and not individual messages.
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