Count of unread messages in mail?

Mail shows that I have 38 unread messages. I really only have 14. I believe what it is doing is counting the entire string of that e-mail. I'm a freelance designer and use those unread messages as a to-do-list. It's difficult to gauge how much work I've got in front of me if that unread message number is so skewed. How can I get it to read just 1 message as 1 message? I'm in Lion.

Thank you Ernie. I am embarassed a little. When I followed your directions I discovered that there was another mbox in my confirmations mail box. The unread messages were accumulating in IT. I had somehow inadvertently moved it there in my attempts to get a more rational ordering of the mailboxes than the one Mail uses by default. I have finally resorted to putting a letter in front of the mail box name to enforce the ordering I want in spite of whether it makes any sense. If I had paid more attention I would have noticed that the folder was sprouting the symbol indicating that subfolders were present.
My problems is solved. Not a bug --just a stupid user.

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