Thanks, Harriet. I think we'll get more newcomers now since I'm fairly certain that the requirement to set up a profile before posting, while effective in stopping spam, also turned away some people who wanted to make legitimate posts but were either confused or never got the emails with their temporary passwords. I KNOW that happened a lot with Hotmail addresses, and there must have been others.

By the way, for you and any other Mac users out there, feel free to post to my new Mac forum:

http://macconsult.com/macforum/index.pl