Mail Rejects Exchange Password

I'm trying to set up Mail to access my company's Exchange server. I was able to get everything working properly in Entourage, but I'd much rather use Apple Mail. The problem seems to be that Mail keeps telling me my password is incorrect, even though I know it's accurate. I've tried setting my username to include the domain (eg. domain\username) as well as entering my full email address. Nothing seems to be working. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

This is an unresolved issue for me as well. I've connected to an Exchange 2003 email account with Entourage, Versamail from a Treo Palm, and of course from MS Outlook, but when I go to set up a new account in Apple Mail I cannot get Exchange to connect.
Apple should either take the "fake" Exchange option off their mail account configuration if it doesn't work any better than this appears to work. Or provide help screens that provide step by step information about their 'unique' way of configuring this service. It has outgoing server configuration that doesn't make sense with an Exchange account...? With exchange if you can get to the server the client and the server should understand each other.
If Versamail and Entourage connects what's up with Apple Mail? Does anyone have any other secrets for getting Apple Mail to connect to an Exchange server email account? I like Apple Mail better than Entourage and would like to get this to work.
Thanks, GZ
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