OK, things are much better than the last time I kept a message for a while!

The combination of hearing a message, saving(skipping) works very well.
Its time for me to stop whining and admit it works very well!
No saved messages were involuntarily played.

7 Delete
2 Save/Skip

My old ticket was from 9/23/2009.

I ran a second test where I saved the 1st two saved messages in a different folder using vPanel. The 3rd and 4th messages played as the newest - all was well. Messages 1 and 2 were not available by the phone access now that they were in a sub folder. In hindsight, I think these were playing first back when I complained. No complaints today. Like everything VOIPo, it seems like most things only get better.

There is still a chance my experience was operator error back then ... it sure seemed legit at the time!