excess messages

[Nicholas von Waltsleben]

Hi there
I have been running INN on an old FreeBSD 4.x server for the past three
years. The server runs in standalone mode and only has one very low
activity group on it for one of the products that the company I work for
wrote. Recently I got a new server on which I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and
INN 2.4.3 out of the ports tree. I restored my backed up files from the
old server and updated the history as per the FAQ.

That was about a month ago and everything has been running smoothly
since then. Yesteryday the person who monitors the newsgroup informed me
that in Outlook Express it is reporting that there are in excess of
47000 messages on the server when in actual fact there are about 7800.

If you right click on the newsgroup in Outlook and look in the
properties it reports that there are 7800 odd messages, I can replicate
this on my desktop and am stumped as to what is causing it. 

Is there anywhere on the server that this would be generated or
something I can run to reconcile the reported number of messages with
the actual number? I have thought about generating the history files
again but that is just an absolute stab in the dark and I don't feel
like going through all our stringent change control procedures based on
a hunch :)

Regards,

Nicholas