Using mail with 2 macs

Hi,
I've lost/erased loads of emails recently. Lion seems to have changed and I can't figure out how to fix it.
I have a Macbook which I use for all mail and archiving. On a second Mac I sometimes look at mail and then erase it from there safe in the knowledge that it's already on the Macbook and is going nowhere.
At least that's how it worked until Lion.
Now if I d/l mail on the second machine and erase it and even though the same mail is already in the mail app on the Macbook it gets erased too. Obviously they're both sync'd and reflect whatever each other is up to but I can't find any way to change this.
I've already lost loads of important emails because of this so any clues would be extremely helpful.
Cheers,
Andy.

Ah, different options.
In SL I was on POP but when I moved to Lion I set it all up from scratch again and it automatically set me up as IMAP not POP.
That still wouldn't fix the issue, though, would it?
In that when I delete a mail on one machine it gets deleted remotely on the other machine?
EG, I can send myself the same test email, pick it up on both machines, but when I delete it from one machine the other machine automatically deletes it too.

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