Thunderbird/Win and Apple Mail/Mac Odd Behaviour

I'm a Mac ultra-newbie, and I seem to have an odd problem.
I've been using Thunderbird for Windows (ver 3.1 under WinXP SP3), and just acquired a MacBook (OS X, 10.6.4) . After setting up my account in Apple Mail, I noticed that messages downloaded to TB for Windows would not download to Apple Mail, and messages dl'd to Apple Mail would not dl to TB for Windows. Both programs are set to leave messages on the server. When I check the account with webmail (Firefox, all the messages are there.
This seems very strange to me. Again, I'm a Mac ultra-newbie, so maybe there is something obvious I'm missing...
Any ideas?

I'm having the same problem, my inbox on my mail server is only 45MB, and I get about 100KB of email a day, but my mail app is somehow transferring 20TB a month to my mail server!!!! It all happens in the background so I don't even notice it going on.
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