Wrong number of messages in GMAIL inbox

Hi all,
I just bought a 13 inch macbook air with OSX Lion and I'm loving it but I just have a small problem with configuring gmail in mail and I hope some of you can help.
I set up the gmail IMAP account in Mail. It works fine except that it indicates that there is 1385 unread messages in the gmail inbox while there is none. 1385 seems to be the maximum number of unread message you can have in Mail and so the counter is not upgraded when I receive a new mail, which makes it a little bit harder to spot that I received new messages.
Anybody knows how to fix it so that the gmail inbox indicate the actual nunber of unread messages?
Thanks,
J.

Yes, I did: I used cmd-A to select all the messages and the inbox and mark them all as read. But it did not change anything.
The same way, the rebuilt mailbox did not have any effect neither.
Thanks anyway!
J.

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