Questions about sent mails and sent items.

Yes, make the changes there.  Change the "Sent Items path" to "Sent Mail", the "Junk path" to "Junk Mail", and the "Deleted Items path" to "Trash".

Is this what you are referring to? Am I supposed to make a change here? Many thanks.

Now we are getting somewhere! Thank you! I did not set any of this up. In fact, I don't know if this just defaulted this way, or if the person, long ago, who set up my computer, had something to do with making these choices. I have had people over the years come to the house to set things up.............a new laptop, a desktop, etc. And things behave differently on my desktop in terms of Windows Live Mail and what gets put there and how that all affects the webbrowser and vice versa. But for now, let's forget about the desktop!

What you have suggested about deleting folders. Do I delete them in Windows Live Mail, or do I delete them in the webbroswers? Please tell me exactly how to delete them! Thanks.

That makes things much clearer - thank you. I don't believe that you've mapped the special folders properly on the IMAP tab of the account's properties dialogue. If you had, you wouldn't have all those extraneous folders at charter.net. You should only see

Inbox

Drafts

Sent Mail

Junk Mail

Trash

followed by your user-created folders Test, Untitled and so on. The other folders you see - Deleted Items, Junk E-mail and Sent Items - are folders native to Windows Live Mail that have been (wrongly) synchronized to the IMAP server. Move any messages in them that you want to keep (this will presumably only involve the Sent Items folder) to the proper 'special' folder with a special icon, then delete all three folders. The whole idea is that you have the same folders in the client and at the server, even though the special folders may have different names. It's the content that counts.