So I changed from a nice box that blends harmoniously with the design and is one nature to a nice box in a contrasting background color (i.e. if site is dk blue then box is white) with a box inside of that colored screaming bright red that shows the cart item and amount totals in either white or pale yellow text.
Also, the box is always present on the upper left corner and, when its empty it says "your cart is empty". I think this makes the change more apparent when it happens as the person at some point typically notices the prominent box prior to beginning the cart addition process, and thus has a cognitive leg up on the situation when the cart contents change.
All of this is guesswork on my part of course, but the net result has been zero problems since I went to this method.
One example of all this at an extremely small site is at http://diditellyou.com. I may have overdone it with the yellow background on the 'checkout' link.
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Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com
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