Mail treats smtp as the "from" account

Hi --
I'm having an odd problem with sending email from Apple Mail. Essentially, it seems to ignore the account I am actually using and transforms the "from" to the smtp server I use to send it.
The smtp server for one of my email accounts is glitchy and works only from my office, so I wish to use another smtp server from home laptop. (iMac at work; Macbook at home; 10.5 and 10.4, respectively.) In preferences, I have set up the various accounts with both email address, separated by commas. And on the @work.edu account, I have smtp.gmail.com as the smtp server. When I send an email from this account, there are two drop-down menus. I select [email protected] in the first and smtp.gmail.com:otheremail in the second drop-down.
It sends, but the recipient gets it as if it is from my gmail account -- not the account I thought I was using. In the outbox, it shows the email as "from" the work account; but in the inbox (if sending tests to myself) it shows the email as "from" the gmail account. Huh?!?
This is confusing for recipients, causes replies to go to the wrong place, and prevents me from posting to closed email lists.
Can someone help? Thanks!

Thanks, Ernie. It appears that you are right. I just tried sending using my home ISP's smtp address instead, and the test message now appears to be from my work account, as intended.
But this raises another issue. The nice thing about using an smtp server for one of my two active email accounts was that my "sent" folder on all computers (home, work, and iPhone) had copies of all sent messages. (I use IMAP.) Unless I create another account, which is really clutter since I don't use my isp address, I won't have it now. Unless there's a trick in Mail, perhaps?
I truly appreciate the help on this!

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