Arrrrrrrg... PM alert doesn't work

[DanL]

Grrrar.... I just happened to accidentally click my PM link by accident today... turns out it was one of those good accidents - I found a PM in there from a few days ago that someone sent me. Unfortionately, this time I didn't get the little pop-up box. This wasn't the first time either. I don't know what it is, but sometimes that popup box just doesn't appear for me. I don't know if it's because I come here through a bookmark or my IE security level sometimes disables it... maybe it's my popup stopper... I don't know what it is, but this wasn't the first time a pm has been just sitting in my inbox because I never got that little javascript popup and so had no knowledge of the message.

I've been thinking about it, and how about this for a simple solution... you know the place where it has your username and logout link? How about if you have new messages sitting in your inbox, a little thing appears there that says "2 New Messages" or however many messages are sitting there with a link to your mailbox?. In my opinion, this is a lot more reliable than javascript (since it's not affected by different settings) and it's not really all that gluttersome. It doesn't seem like it would take all that much effort either. What do you guys think? Here's a photoshop of what I had in mind: