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When a custom data group is set to hold only one record the tab still displays a count of 1 and the delete button is shown beside the group name (see attached image). This seems odd because it gives the appearance of handling multiple records.

Here's my fix...

CRM/Contact/Page/View/Summary.php around line 301 change the foreach loop to
foreach ( $activeGroups as $group ) {
$id = "custom_{$group['id']}";
$isMultiple = CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue( 'CRM_Core_DAO_CustomGroup',$group['id'],'is_multiple' );
if($isMultiple) $count = CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact::getCountComponent( $id, $this->_contactId, $group['table_name'] );
else $count = -1;
$allTabs[] = array(
'id'     => $id,
'url'    => CRM_Utils_System::url( $group['path'], $group['query'] . "&snippet=1&selectedChild=$id"),
'title'  => $group['title'],
'weight' => $weight,
'count'  => $count
);
$weight += 10;
}
templates/CRM/Contact/Page/View/Summary.tpl line 34 change to
<li id="tab_{$tabValue.id}"><a href="{$tabValue.url}" title="{$tabValue.title}">{$tabValue.title}{if $tabValue.count neq -1}&nbsp;({$tabValue.count}){/if}</a></li>
templates/CRM/Contact/Page/View/CustomDataView.tpl line 53 add "and $is_multiple" to the if conditions
CRM/Custom/Form/CustomData.php after line 104 add
$this->assign('is_multiple',CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue( 'CRM_Core_DAO_CustomGroup',$this->_groupId,'is_multiple' ));
There's probably a more elegant way to do this but I'll post it anyway and see what happens. I'm using CiviCRM 3.1.2.

Yes, I understand, but I still think this is non-standard behavior. There is no "(0)" beside "Demographics" and it doesn't change to "(1)" when you fill in their birthday. There is no delete button to wipe out all of the fields of "Communication Preferences"... etc.

Anyway, I've learned my lesson. Next time I won't spend time coding a solution until I get the thumbs-up from the CiviCRM admins.