Mail preferences, accounts, advanced

I have several gmail accounts and I have duplicate folders of messages that I am unable to simply delete. Even if I delete the hundreds of messages that are stored there, the messages come back. So I'm wondering if this is because of choices that I have made in Preferences. In the options: "Keep copies of mail for offline viewing", "Don't keep copies of any mail", if I choose the latter, I get this dire warning, so I'm not sure what to do. Will this choice also remove copies from the server? Thanks for your help.

Hi, I followed the instructions that Thomas gave to make these folders disappear: opened up my gmail account, went to Settings, Labs and then enabled Advance IMAP Controls. Then I went to Labels and only had options to Hide or Show, not to Remove. And I wasn't sure if the instructions just referred to what I would see on the internet or what I would see in my Mail app.
Is there anything that I should be doing in Mail Preferences, Accounts, to get rid of these folders of seemingly duplicate messages (don't really understand that part about them not really being duplicate, but...). The folders I want to remove are: (specific gmail address), All Mail, Drafts, Sent Mail, Spam, Starred and Trash. If anyone knows how to get rid of those folders I would appreciate your help. Thanks again.

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