Unread mail icon oddity

The strangest thing has started happening to my Mail unread mail icon (the little lozenge that appears next to an account when new mail comes in) It's as if baseline shift has been added. I've taken a screen shot - it literally happened out of the blue today. Any ideas? It's Mail 4.5 on Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Clearly it's a problem I can live with, but I'd prefer it to be acting more normaller like.
Cheers,
Dan

Dan,
Is it now happening almost immediately after the "corrective" relaunch? In other words, can you count on it showing up quickly? I ask because it may be useful to create a New User Account on your Mac, and as that New User set up Mail to run without either of the addons.
I suppose it could be something related to the display and graphic interface, but that seems a stretch.
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