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> I apologize for asking such a basic question.  What is the correct way 
> to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter 
> is augmented by 1.  So far,  I have \newcount\MyCounter and have tried 
> \advance\MyCounter by1 and a few other things I found online,  but 
> whenever I try to increase its value by 1, all references to it's value 
> return 1.  Not a particularly useful counter ;-) . 

Hmmm... It can happens for many reasons. 
Try for instance

\global\advance\MyCounter by 1\relax 
\the\MyCounter

%  \relax is not always obligatory but treat it as a goode habit