Apparently there are a few bugs in the last Forum upgrade I downloaded and installed (whoops! ), but I went to their site and found a new service release that fixes (hopefully) these problems. Failing that, I will just reinstall the OLD forum version that was working so well... Thanks for the input on the probs you have been having with the forum.
(Updated to the new Forum code, but still won't let me post to that thread that Finch mentioned... ah the joys of programming, if anyone else has any posting problems please post, haha, them here, if able that is!!)