Deleting all of my incoming texts immediately :(

[Joeyvee]

This is B.S! Everything was fine with my texting. I was NOWHERE near any stupid limit. the phones less than a week old and I'm using just the stock texting program. One day I noticed I had more threads than I wanted to I deleted all instead of just deleting one thread. Now when new texts come in I dont get ANY alert at all and I have to go in my messaginh app and look and then I see a few contacts who have sent me texts and I see the first few words, but when I open them it will just show me the last ones sent and the incoming one is automatically deleted. I HATE IT. I cant find any evidence of this happening to anyone else. I have taken the battery out a few times already and it hasnt helped.. PLEASE someone tell me this happened to them and how they fixed it.> Thanks.
I dont know where everyone else lives but when I lived in NY and here in Hawaii the verizon store is worse than the damned DMV so I really dont want to have to go in there.