hehe thanks lulu and Beth again. Yes I see now, I told you how to do it from the forum messages lulu rather than in the private messages. Right now it's all very frustrating, every time I click on 'reply' or anything like that- or 90% of the time anyway- it logs me out, and I'm lucky if it gives me that 'shortcut to last page visited' link after logging back in. If it doesn't do that I have to hit the back button and hope when I refresh the page I am logged in again so can reply to the message. Next month I will no longer be on high speed internet as well so the problem will only get worse! Oh well.