remove the Your Notifications count of 1

[symbolipoint]

There is a persistent count of 1 in my "Your Notifications". How do I get rid of it? I already read the notification and chose to not include an item, but this Your Notifications count of 1 still remains.

[Hootenanny]

There is a persistent count of 1 in my "Your Notifications". How do I get rid of it? I already read the notification and chose to not include an item, but this Your Notifications count of 1 still remains.
Usually, this is a friend request that hasn't been responded to. You need to scroll down to the bottom of the page, select the user's avatar using the check box and then click the appropriate button underneath.

[symbolipoint]

The problem I described was happening under IE 8 (or might have been firefox 6.01?) under Windows XP s.p.3. I did as you described through IE 9 in Windows Vista and this worked. Suspecting browser or operating system problem involved in this. Now notification is gone as expected.