Problems with syncing Mail (with mailboxes and emails)

I synced my Tiger desktop to my Leopard laptop and have had 2 big problems:
1. The mailboxes that I had trashed in Tiger showed up in Leopard AND worse, the new ones don't show up.
2. I'm syncing both rules, sigs, smart mailboxes AND Accounts - when you sync accounts, aren't the emails supposed to transfer over too? I'm not getting ANY emails to transfer to the laptop.
I need to be able to keep emails on both machines current - HELP!

Syncing email account information between computers requires a .Mac account -- do you have one?
Start by reading Mail Help searching with "Synchronizing Mail accounts and settings using .Mac"
Also see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/9007.html
Which states, in part: "Synchronizing your mail accounts doesn’t synchronize your email messages between computers. If you want your email messages and folders to be synchronized across computers, set up your email account as an IMAP account (.Mac accounts created using Mac OS X Tiger are automatically configured to use IMAP). With IMAP accounts, messages and folders are stored on the mail servers, so you can access them from more than one location. Mail synchronizes your IMAP mailboxes and messages on your computer with those on the server."
Ernie

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Hey Tooschaye,
iTunes will sync the email account settings to the iPhone, it does not sync the actual emails or attachments.
You should be able to find a few applications on the App Store which will let you store files on your iPhone. Then you can transfer the files to your desktop. I believe most of these apps require the devices be on the same Wi-Fi network.
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Definately worked for me with my Netgear WNDR37000. Changed to cannel 11 and so far no problems!!
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