not getting that...

possibly just me then. I think that's why I left before. Plurks keep re-posting as new.

"mark all as read" once and it's fixed. You might need to flush your cache?

probably a cache problem. Mark all Read is not working.

which browser?

It may have to do with your extended absence and having lots of old messages queued up. As wohali said a "Mark all as read" may fix it.