Using gmail concepts in mutt with offlineimap (archive, star)

The wiki entries for offlineimap and mutt are very helpful but do not cover using IMAP to do things the gmail way. Specifically starring, archiving, and priority inbox. This seems like something many people must have already accomplished, but my google-fu says no one has documented it.
Objectives
Locally store/backup messages labeled as important by gmail (my phone can do more offline with email than this laptop)
Be able to "archive" and "star" these messages
Do this with faster loading and responding than possible with the web interface (so not using imap through mutt)
Questions
Can offlineimap be used to "archive" mail (move from inbox to all_mail) without having to all of all_mail stored locally.
Can a hook be set up on flagging in mutt to copy a message to starred?
Can offlineimap sync these changes if it doesn't create a starred folder (but instead somehow marks as flagged).
Confusions
After running offlineimap, the folders all_mail, sent, drafts, and starred are not created/populated but my Mail dir is now 4.6Gb
How mutt/offineimap sets starred message as flagged
OfflineImap Config
nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub ('^\[gmail\]', '',
#re.sub ('^\[gmail\]', 'bak',
re.sub ('sent_mail', 'sent',
re.sub ('starred', 'flagged',
re.sub (' ', '_', foldername.lower()))))
folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername not in ['[Gmail]/Spam']
#folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in ['[Gmail]/Important' '[Gmail]/Drafts' ]
Archive
My understanding is, using the patched packaged mutt-great-dane, we can set trash to All Mail so deleting will achieving within gmail. (I also want to set postponed to drafts).
muttrc wrote:set trash = "+all_mail/"
set postponed = "+drafts/"
For this to work, must offlineimap also sync the whole of All Mail? Is there a way to tell offlineimap only to care about say the last month rather than keeping years of emails on a netbook? I permit access to all my information to google so it can do the long term hosting.
I did try downloading all my mail, but there is not folder called 'all_mail' (until I made one with mutt). And I don't get the desired effect when "deleting".
But if it did work, and I am viewing a message in the important folder, I fear it would remove the important label and not the inbox label in gmail's web interface.
Star
Messages that are starred come into mutt as flagged, but flagged messages in mutt do not get starred in gmail. I imagine a way to solve this is to add a hook to flagging that copies the message to 'starred.' I don't know where to start with that. And there is also no starred directory.
Priority Inbox
With mutt and labels something more powerful than gmails priority inbox seems possible. But to as an initial attempt I set the spool file to important and only display starred and unread messages. I mention this because I think I might be breaking something by setting spoolfile.
muttrc wrote:set spoolfile=+important/
macro index .n "l(~N|~O|~F)~d<1w\n"
folder-hook . push '.n'
Thanks!

Patrick Brisbin's git repo really helped me when I was setting up mutt.
https://github.com/pbrisbin/mutt-config
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