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Are you using handcent or some other SMS app over your stock text messenger?
You would open handcent>menu>application settings>default messaging application>all (SMS +mms)
That will eliminate any double texts. As for the text counter, if you mean the one in your notification bar on startup or reboot, I don't know how to stop that, but you can just hit clear and it is gone until the next time you reboot.
Disable all the settings in the stock sms