Multiple Gmail Accounts - one works, one doesn't.

I have 2 gmail accounts - one for my business, and one for personal. I can't synch them both on the iphone - I am 100% confident that I have the address and pw correctly and the settings are the same for both on the iphone, but one of the accounts works and the other doesn't? Is there some sort of limitation that you can't have 2 gmail accounts on the iphone?
Thanks

You've been a big help - thanks - I will try some of this later. I have enabled POP download for the one that didn't work, but I am still getting an error message on the one that has never worked that the connection to pop.gmail.com has failed so I'm sure it's some internal function I need to fix, but you got me on the right path - thanks so much.

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