We did a few things but it's definitely the computer that's the problem - the mac mail on the computer. The 300 unread e-mails showing on the iPhone match up with aol.com's cloud - so when I'm reading e-mails on the computer, they are not synching with aol and the phone to show as read. So, I'm keeping my eye on things for the next two days. But I think if it doesn't fix itself the plan will be, at least MY plan, to nuke the main AOL account out of mac mail for good and I'll just see it on the phone and on aol.com. And I'll start phasing it out and getting people to use my gmail account.