Is it me, or is there a defect with the "My Stuff & PM" section of this bulletin board/web site?

I don't receive a lot of PMs, and maybe it's partly because I don't notice when I receive one, so I am days late in replying to them. The reason I don't notice when I receive one is because the damn white blinky flag, which I assume is to notify me when I get a new PM, blinks all the damn time, when I have a new message, when I don't have a new message, after I've checked for messages, and replied to messages. Oh, just to make this harder to figure out, sometimes the white flag doesn't blink, but that is the exception. It's been blinking non-stop, and I haven't had a new message since May 15th.

Is this how it's supposed to work? Is that how it is on your computer for this site? No other bulletin board I use has such a defective PM notifying mechanism. I'd like this thing to work properly. I'd also like to get up to speed and put up an avatar photo again.

Sg