Trouble with AOL IMAP

I have successfully set up everything for my AOL account on Mail.app. Now, after a few weeks, I can not find my trash folder from AOL. Mail.app makes its own folder called "Deleted Messages", and does not recognize the AOL trash folder. I can tell they are different folders when I log in through AOL.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated. P.S. I am running on Leopard.

Hopefully Ali b. sees this, but...
Are you using Port 587?
http://masonsklut.com/how-to-set-up-your-aol-or-aim-mail-account-with-mac-os-x-m ail/
If you have used the AOL Service Assistant to setup AOL on your Mac or you get the “can’t send using server” message, you must change the Server Port to 587 in order to send/receive emails within Mac OS X Mail.

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