>My new messages/replies pane is not being updated properly. For example, I post a message and then refresh and the new message count does not increment. I clear some or all of the replies to my messages and the count does not decrement.
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>It's possible that this is a proxy problem at my ISP, but I've been doing OK for the past 2 months or so and they haven't notified me of any change to their proxy.

Sometimes, the browser may stop refreshing the lower left frame. Just refresh it manually and it will start again.