RS> Excellent !  Ok so I lied one more question, you may notice I am
 RS> posting from mystic instead of golded.  Well when I fired up golded
 RS> this morning it lost all my last messages read and it reset all the
 RS> numbers.. Did that make sense? so for instance my netmail went from
 RS> 156 0 back to 156 156*?

I don't use Mystic, but I use another editor (gossiped). Both make use of the
same last read pointer and show the same numbers.

Have you changed your username in Golded?