Mail acting weird since yesterday

Hi all! I'm running OS 10.8.3 on an iMac (Intel). I'm using Mail version 6.3 (1503).
It's been working fine until last night. All of a sudden, it's acting strange.
Here are some things I've noticed:
     1. Often (but not always) when I delete an email, it deletes a second email from my inbox as well — one that's either right above or below the one I meant to delete
     2. When I click on an email to view it (I have my email set up so I can see the list of emails and then the actual email I've selected... see screenshot), it automatically opens the email in a separate window (when I did NOT double click to open it)
     3. When I click on an email to reply to someone, TWO windows of that same email pop up
It's like it's super hyper sensative or something. Any ideas what is causing this to happen? I can live with the second two issues, but the first one is not good. I don't even know what it's deleting.
Thanks!
Julie

Hi Tuttle,
I'm glad you are not experiencing the problem. However, there is NO confusion here - the numbers are random and do NOT represent the incoming or the outgoing numbers of messages as you would normally expect. This morning I got 195 of 195 and got no messages coming in at all! I have been using Macs for more than a decade and this has never happened before. This has only happened for the first time when I changed to Mavericks and is happening on both of my laptops (macbook air and Macbook Pro 15inch) - it is NOT the computer.
"To my eyes, the numbers we see in the Activity pane increase in increments of 1 with each message that is sent or received by a given mail account, starting with "1 of 1" after Mail is launched in any given session" - of course this is what you would expect to happen.
If the problem doesn't exist for you then your comments, as well intended as they are, are not really going to help - it is a bit like me telling you it is raining outside but you are in a railway tunnel - what rain? I am grateful for your contribution and interest so please don't take offence. The issue is known to Apple Techs - they tell me that they can see the same thing happening on their computers - and their explanation of why it is happening is somewhat frustrating and definitely not sitting well with me.
I suppose at the end of the day, if I get my emails I should not be too concerned but for those having this experience it is still a bit lame.
Regards to all....

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