Mail uploading old messages with Lion

Hi!
Installed Lion this morning - everything was going great until I re-launched Mail and all of the sudden all of my old Gmail messages that I had deleted or moved are cropping up in my inbox, unread. Gmail is still 'thinking' (scroll next to it) and every time I quit Mail, 500 new messages come up... before this started, I had less than 200 messages in my inbox - now I have over 2000... and it doesn't seem to be letting up... help!!

So embarrassingly, I'm here to answer my own question...
I signed into google maps with my main gmail address, and it asked me if I wanted that address to be a default or something for iChat, and two other programs - one of which must have been Mail, because it added this main Gmail account to my Mail accounts without asking and started uploading the messages - thank goodness I caught it before it uploaded all 8500 archived messages!
Seems with Lion it doesn't ask permission to do things as much as in the past... not used to such freedom - beware and enjoy!

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