[MacWilder]

Hmm. No ideas, no suggestions to my post. Well, I deleted all the SMS's and discovered that the queue for messages displayed in the HTC Sense display is separate from the the actual queue of messages listed in "All Messages", which is in time-stamped order. Consequently, the result shown in the HTC Sense display can differ from the actual result with the consequences I observed. But I still don't know how to fix it.