After 10.8.3 update, mail won't delete

I completed the 10.8.3 update this morning. Now when I click to delete mail messages, instead of deleting, mail jumps to highlight another message seven places away.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how to correct it?
Thanks.

Strange! I quit Mail, then reopened it, and delete works as it should. Whatever was malfunctioning has cleared up by re-opening Mail. I'm glad.

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I was also unable to open and read any of your responses to previous questions that appear to be similar.
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Is Thunderbird really crashing when you try to delete mail, or is it not responding?
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What exactly does this mean?
Are you talking about Gmail? If so, do you have any clue what 'All Mail' is, and why it's a bad idea to delete something from 'All Mail'?
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CharlesH08
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From: Sacramento CA
Registered: Oct 20, 2008
Re: 2.2 problem..
Posted: Nov 22, 2008 4:28 PM in response to: Farrel Hubbard
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Hello Farrel Hubbard,
You can find information to resolve the AOL account not deleting messages in Nathan C's post in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1799112&tstart=0
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