Clicking around makes me crazy too. So...

If you can handle the emails, go into each main topic like "Control Journal", scroll down to below the bottom thread and "Watch this forum." If you do that for every main topic you will get an email for each new post. That is the only way I know how to catch everything.

Natalia might know something I don't.

That's what I wanted to know. I keep seeing a "new posts" folder at the bottom of the page, and it's "locked". It confused me.

And, how do I insert the cute little "emoticons"? If I click on them, it just gives me a little punctuation smiley that I could type myself.

Seriously, I can take apart a computer and repair and install, but don't have a clue about forums (well, except THE FORUM, where my beloved Lakers play).

-Rebecca

Smileys: Profile, Preferences, 4th from the bottom - click yes to enable.

Ummm! You said the L word!!! *mumbles "clothesline Bryant"*

Up near the top, right of the Forum page there is a clickable link to new posts since you last visited. Click on it and it will give you a list of all the posts that are new. Hope that helps.

The smiley will come out looking like the picture. It just uses the punctuation as code.

Aha!
Thanks!