Very Slow POP3 access in Mac Mail

Hello All,
I have found that downloading email via POP3 is extremely slow compared with IMAP for MAC Mail.
I received my new imac a few days ago and have being trying to setup my mail account with Mac Mail (I've updated the system software to the latest).
When I tried the Mac mail application with my Gmail account via POP3; it was extremely slow to download emails (10 to 20 seconds for each email to download). Plus when I sent an email to myself, checked that I had received it in the gmail web interface, and then did a 'get mail' in Mac Mail, the email didn't appear!
So I switched to IMAP and found that it downloaded much quicker (several emails a second) and I can send/receive emails with no delays.
While this problem is solved for me, my wife uses yahoo mail, which doesn't support IMAP!
Has anyone found this problem with their pop3 email accounts? I've also found that the pop3 seems to download multiple copies of the same emails.
As you can imagine: this is so frustrating, email is such a basic feature that I would have expected it to work straight out of the box. Anyway, so much for buying a new mac and expecting a smooth experience (unlike the problems I was having with windows)
Does anyone know how to fix this??
Cheers,
Don
P.S. Apologies for the rant! Besides this email issue, I am very impressed with Mac OS X

Try resetting some of the hardware involved (PRAM~NVRAM). See this Apple KB for details, etc.:
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