>It said that I had 5 New Messages (which would be only for the .NET forum) ... I clicked on the Refresh, the count went to 0, but there were *not* 5 new messages in the .NET forum. In fact, there weren't any. There may have been 5 new messages total (Chatter, VFP), but I'm not 100% sure. I don't see it happening right now, so perhaps you were just in the middle of fiddling with it.
Was the count indicated right after you did a login?