pidgin isn't aware of current state of yahoo mailbox

Binary package hint: pidgin

ubuntu 8.04
1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.4

if i open email on my yahoo account outside of pidgin (not using pidgen buddy list open), pidgin isn't "aware" of this and keeps totting up those messages as if they were never opened. at that point, if i open messages from pidgin's buddy list, a tab (firefox) is opened for each message. worse yet, would have to log in to each one of them! the only good thing here is that i can close each tab w/o logging in and then pidgin is up to date. still, having to close each tab...

6/12/09-just checked system monitor and discovered 6 or 7 pidgin zombie processes. the only thing i can think of is that they were left over from opening the messages/closing the tabs...

06/19/09-checked buddy list. it shows "16 new emails.". under accounts, yahoo, aim & gmail are listed. the only account listed under "accounts->enable accounts is msn, which i don't login to automatically. i'd jbeen in my mailbox (http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?sysreq=ignore) and had viewed my unopened mail.several minutes previously. best just to "x out" of new mail...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 11 10:26:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686