Using Mail with gmail (first time setup)

I have been using gmail for years. I usually just use the webbased email so that I can check it from any computer. Now I'm interested in setting up Mail because I'm getting an ipod touch next week and I want to be able to use the Mail program on that. I successfully got Mail to logon to my gmail account, but then it started downloading a massive amount of emails-- apparently ALL my emails rather than just the current ones in my inbox. So here is my question-- can I make Mail understand the customizations I've already done in Gmail, or do I have to do them all over again? Here are the various features I'm using in gmail that I need to set up:
1) I have several different email accounts forwarding to my gmail account.
2) I use the different labels in gmail
3) I have some filters set up-- so that certain junk mail bypasses the inbox and gets archived right away
4) I have a lot of mail that is already archived and not in the inbox.
I also want to still be able to use web based gmail when I'm at my work computer, so I'd like to make all these different filters and stuff match up as much as possible. Any advice? Thanks!

No one? Well, I've figured most of it out (I'm using IMAP) but I have one more question-- when I delete a message from the inbox in Mail, it gets deleted in gmail rather than archived. What do I do to make a message get archived in gmail?

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