Checked my account today
There was a private message from Wella in the Escalation team 
requesting details of failed recovery attempt.. 8 digit numbers

Logged out and went to my Hotmail account to find numbers (which I did)
Logged on to ANSWERS again

Now simply cannot get to view my private messages 
None of the three ways works 
neither the red underlined link at the top of the page
nor the account home page "select private messages and apply"
nor the private message link on the original question

Logged out tried again ..all three routes
and again 
and again 

Suspected it might be a browser issue and reloaded latest version 23 of Google Chrome again
Tried again ..all three routes 

This is just a nightmare with a process that just seems to grow exponentially with further problems 
and causing everybody more work 

So my question is 
given that all routes do not give a result 
how do i view my private messages