Rules problem and sluggishness in Gmail IMAP

I just plugged in my Gmail IMAP settings into Mail, and it is not listening to rules set to move all of my sent mail into a sent folder (into either the "on my mac" or the "gray globe" folders). The mail from me just sits obstinately in the "all mail" or "Inbox" folder.
Also, every time I select an IMAP folder, it decides it gives me the little piechart time indicator symbol and I have to wait 20-30 seconds to see my messages.
Ideas?

First of all, for the issue w/ the sent/junk/trash/drafts folder - if you select any of those folders in the sidebar, then go to the 'Mailbox' menu and select 'use this mailbox for' - you can manually set those folders to be used as the default folders - so in turn no need to use the rules. -The inbox however should store all incoming messages automatically.
One issue that I need to point out is that for some reason Gmail is placing all the chat logs from Google Talk into your 'all mail' folder...
Now why Gmail IMAP is so horribly slow compared to most other IMAP services, I honestly don't have a clue, and I must add I'm having the exact same problem.

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Hi,
I don't know if this is relevant... but…
Last year, when I set up a second, temporary Gmail IMAP account, I found that all did not jell well together…
I encountered quite a few problems… sending and receiving… transferring to and from the accounts… and lots of Hangs and Time Outs…
When I had eventually finished with the second account, I not only deleted it from Mac Mail, but Completely Closed and Deleted it with Gmail.
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As I said, not sure if this is relevant to your Problem, but thought it might be of interest to you.
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Can you imagine if this condition should it happen to a tech savvy Google Support person? Perhaps one can share and make my problem go away.
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[email protected]
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