POP account not working

I just recreated my POP account for the umpteenth time because I cannot get it to respond correctly - will not go online, retrieve mail, show any messages that should still be in there, etc.
I used the sam settings from my Tiger machine which sends mail just fine in this same POP account.
I have 3 IMAPS and a .Mac/MobileMe account and they work just fine.
I have tried different port settings based on what I've read in here and no luck. What port should a POP acct use? My other machine says 110, but no luck in Leopard.
I keep getting a request for my passsword.
HELP! HELP! HELP!! Please!!

MobileMe offered a POP options, and people who have migrated have sometimes found that the facility hung over for a bit before disappearing.
If you were using it in POP mode and had received the emails they should be on your computer - receiving them would download them and probably remove them from the server. However the POP access was probably set up as a separate account to the IMAP, so if you deleted the POP account you would have deleted the emails along with it unless you took steps to save them. Time Machine?...

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