I've found two oddities with 1.3svn and the displaying of the number of contacts in groups.
1) Toggling "Show All Contacts" automatically hides the number of visible contacts (or perhaps total contacts) for groups. This is perhaps intentional as they are the same, but it left at least me confused wondering why Adium changed a setting without me wanting it to. IMHO it should still say (X of Y), even when X == Y, in order to really show the user that he/she is in fact viewing all contacts.
2) Hiding both the visible count and the total count (with Show All Contacts turned off) correctly hides both counts for expanded groups, but not for collapsed ones. If this is the expected behavior, the menu string should perhaps be changed to reflect this, something like "Hide Expanded Group Visible Count".