Puzzled by the Mail program...

Hello everyone,
I just got the new iPod touch and am kind of baffled at how the mail program works. I am hoping someone can enlighten me.
First puzzling thing is, I have the mail preference set to manual but the mail continues to download automatically. Finally to make it stop I turned off my WiFi connection. I manually deleted the mail in the inbox, and now it shows a message to give me the option of loading 25 more messages out of a total of over 2 billion unread messages! What in the world is going on? I know I do not have 2 billion messages on my server.
As far as I can tell, when I select manual it is downloading new mail every time I access the program. Is this correct?
Second thing that would be great is if I could tell the iPod mail program to only download recent messages. I do not want it downloading messages more than one day old. There does not seem to be any preference available for this and it is currently downloading all messages remaining on the server. Not what I need from a mobile device.
I would be interested in hearing what others have done that works conveniently for them when using Mail on the iPod touch or iPhone...
One item of note regarding SPAM, I found that Spam Sieve can manage spam on the iPod touch if I make my mail accounts IMAP and set mail to automatically update on my computer. The e-mail that Spam Sieve moves to the spam folder on my computer gets deleted from the IMAP server because it is moved out of the main account folder. Then when I check mail with the iPod the spam has already been eliminated. iPod e-mail would be unusable for me otherwise since I get hundreds of spams a day.
Thanks all!

For the recent messages part, the program should automatically receive only the most recent messages, up to the number specified in settings (the options are 25, 50, 75, 100, and 200 most recent messages).
If the option to "Show next 25 messages" is there in the mail program, those technically aren't downloaded yet; by clicking the button, then the messages are moved to the phone as well. The 2 Billion messages might just be an error. I've personally never seen it. You could try deleting the account on your phone and re-entering it if you feel like it, that might correct the problem (it could right itself after a while too).

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