I'm not sure about the notifications, I do know the notifications I used most often up by the private messages link which would say something like. you have 4 unread private messages the latest is from darkangel76 titled bla bla bla. is not working and I had 3 pms but those notifications weren't working. I loved those it meant I could just click that and not have to go into my pm box to find the message.
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