Mail alert banners stopped working in 10.9.2

Anyone else see this and have a workaround? After updating to 10.9.2 I get new mail sound and the unread count changes on the dock icon, but notification center banner alerts no longer display. (Yes, I made sure they are still enabled in notification center.)

Try locating and deleting these two preference/plist files:
~(yourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
~(yourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
And this one, in the same location if no joy from the above:
com.apple.mail.plist
*Caution* - doing this may clear your account settings to be sure to note those first in the event you are required to reconfigure, etc.

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