Vista - WLM downloading 1000's of messages from live. com that are bogus

A couple of weeks ago, about the time pop3 was rolled out to free accounts,
my WLM started acting up. I have a paid Windows Live Hotmail Account. When
Windows Live Mail Syncs with Hotmail, it says it's downloading messages.
After a couple of minutes, the download message count is in the 1000's but
there is now new mail received. If I click stop, any new mail is received.
At the next sync, this occurs again. See captures below.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3345/...038ba48d_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/...38e72036_o.jpg

Following is a capture of the error message being received but it gives me
nothing that helps the issue. Server Error: 0x800CCC90

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3558/...6ee2c803_o.jpg

Any thoughts would be great. I also sync my Yahoo! Mail Plus account to WLM
and it works fine. Problem is a Hotmail issue.
I paid for an account which is basically useless and am getting rather
frustrated with it. Also, from the Hotmail web client, the MSN Photo Upload
Tool does not work. I will save that for a different day. If this first
issue doesn't get fixed, the Upload Tool will be irrelevant as I will go back
to Yahoo! Mail.

Something like this happened to me in early 2008 when I first got WLM.
Turns out it was downloading years of previously deleted messages. Are you
actually getting messages downloaded? With a paid account you have a number
of support options that ordinary free accounts do not get. Take advantage
of them. Have you tried letting the message download run to completion?
That is what I had to do.

Earle

"LandonAB" <LandonAB@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Logon to mail.live.com
How many messages are present in the Inbox.

Was pop3 in use on that account in another email client that left messages on the server ?

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...winston
ms-mvp mail

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