I've got the same problem here, though I've been here for a few weeks. When I reloaded the page and logged back in, it asked me if I wanted to few a new private message, and I selected ok. It opened into the inbox message list, but nothing was there. I still have on the line options, where it says, "Home, Help, Search..." My Messages [1]. What is the 1 doing there if there's nothing to view? Also, there was no email alerting me to a new PM waiting in my inbox.