Mail won't receive POP Gmail.

I recently upgraded from Panther and when I went to setup my gmail POP account in the new Mail program, it wouldn't let me recieve emails. The connection to gmail is good (supposedly). I say this because I ran the "Connection Doctor" and it states that all is well for the POP and the SMTP. But I can't get my new mail. I can send mail, and sent myself a test email, but when I clicked "Get Mail" nothing ever showed up. I also have a seperate IMAP account which is working just fine.
Any suggestions or ideas?
Thanks in advance,
William

Did you follow this set of instructions from Google regarding account setup in Mail?
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275&topic=1555
GMail uses an encrypted POP3 protocol on port 995.

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