I went from 0.48 to 0.50 and then to 0.51 and 0.52.  I did not
experience any problems with the transition itself, just with bugs
starting with 0.50 that caused the problems I described before.

I really don't know what's causing all the groups to be marked with
*s, but if it's just your mail groups I would say your active file has
been corrupted.  You might want to take a look at it.  If all your
mail groups are nnml, you can just remove the active file and Gnus
will regenerate it.  Not sure what it does with other mail backends.

You might also try killing all the mail groups... Gnus will
resubscribe you the next time you go back in.  Again, this only works
with nnml, as far as I know.

If you take my advice and it deletes everything, then you will know
you shouldn't have listened to me.

>>>>> Sometime around 17 Oct 1996 10:46:07 -0500,
>>>>> in article <xluybh5h9vk.fsf@club.med.umn.edu>,
>>>>> someone posing as Eric Hendrickson <edh@club.med.umn.edu> wrote:

Eric> I'm using 0.52 right now, and was using 0.48 before, with XEmacs
Eric> 19.14.  I haven't had any problems, except that I haven't taken
Eric> the time to figure out why all my groups are marked with *'s
Eric> instead of unread article counts.  I assume it is just not doing
Eric> that automatically anymore?  I'm not using tm, though.

Eric> 		--eric -- "Too much leeway in the marketing
Eric> department."  [ALMOST LIVE, local Seattle humor program]