Gmail = Gonemail? Scrunchmail?

Jeneane is having a Google nightmare, specifically, a vanishment of her entire inbox. This has to be straightened out - people are moving to gmail and putting a lot of reliance on its staying put.

While on the subject, I will note that on my 3-year-old laptop, Gmail tends to scrunch and grind and lock up - like there are too many scripts running or something. Could it be all those "content sensitive" ads? It didn't always act this way. I use the latest Mozilla Firefox. I use the same stuff on a newer PC, and do not have Gmail scrunch.

I have been appreciating Gmail more and more - it's really quite brilliant. But what the