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Unless it's quick and easy I wouldn't worry too much about it, Chrissie - I can't help thinking that although displaying all the page numbers would be fine for a 5-page thread, this might not work out so well for a 27-page one. As you say, I can always enter the number in the white box. Just me being lazy - if there's a shortcut there I'll always try that first! Thanks for looking at it though - you're becoming quite the coding expert now; I am most impressed and probably a little jealous.

Oddly enough, the Flash update installed fine without a hitch; it was just the Reader one that wouldn't. Tried turning off the Antivirus etc, no dice, it repeatedly fails partway through the download. I've concluded it might possibly be due to my elderly pc still running XP when the rest of the world has all moved on and decided to ignore it. There are definitely parts of the new, improved Firefox which are inoperative as I'm not running Windows 7 so I may as well get used to it! (and basically the pc's had all the housekeeping it's likely to get this week now, life being far, far too short...)

Well here I am back again and all seems to be well now, everyone is happy. Well done, Chrissie!

My margins are 'just right' and I can live without blue or blue/grey borders perfectly happily if AOL is too behind-the-times to display such exotica.

I even have Firefox on the pc but rarely use it, I did spend some time this morning updating it to the latest version but then got horribly bogged down because it was grizzling about some of my Add-Ons (like Adobe Reader) being out-of-date and not compatible. Wasted some time trying to update those to keep it happy but lost my patience after a while (actually after the third time the Adobe Reader update failed...!!) and eventually gave up before my brain melted.

I've meant to mention a couple of times that there is one tiny, tiny thing which would be great if it were slightly easier to use: the "Jump to page number" thing at the bottom left when you have multi-page posts.

On my machine if there are (say) 5 pages in a thread, I hover the cursor over the "Jump to" bit then have to dive onto the page number I want while it is visible and click on it. The page numbers are only visible for a couple of seconds, so if I miss the one I'm aiming for or don't click fast enough, they disappear and I have to start over again. I do realise that owning up to this happening fairly frequently means I'm admitting to not being very good at aiming my cursor , but it would be easier if the page numbers stayed on view for just a little bit longer than they do!

If by any chance this too is an AOL foible, please ignore this totally - I get there in the end, and obviously will continue to do so.

Thanks for the advice, Jerry - sadly it doesn't seem to work, as in I can't seem to "paste" anything; I'm assuming that is how it should work? May be 'cos I'm using AOL. Tried the "PrtScrn" button with Ctrl, Alt & Shift as well but still no dice.

I think everything widened briefly a while ago then went back to quite large 'margins' either side as far as I'm concerned but as Chrissie has decided to leave it for today probably doesn't matter anyway. Thanks for your efforts anyway, Chrissie - probably best to try again another time if you're getting to the banging-head-against-wall stage now! Go get yourself a glass of wine, girl.

Forgot to mention last time, my screen is one of the 'old-fashioned' types, not a widescreen one. Don't know if this would make any difference?

It's probably just me, Chrissie - I actually feel slightly inhibited about posting anything until I've caught up with 'the latest' so I don't go and stick my ruddy great hoof in the middle of something or make myself look more of an idiot than I really am! (OK, I broke my own rule by posting here but it felt fairly safe)

Let's face it, if "New Topics" went all the way back when you've been away for several months you could spend the rest of your life trying to catch up with it all.

As this often seems to be the way my entire life goes (currently running out of fingers for all the email replies I owe various people), I don't think I'd actually recommend it... !!

Well I'm definitely too late and located at the wrong end of the country, so I'm just here to say how great it is to see the way that fellow vapers are so willing to leap into the breach in a situation like this! Pat yourselves on the back people, you deserve it for being so good-hearted and generous.

Thankyou from me for a reminder that this country of ours may have been giving far too much media coverage to the useless greedy, selfish and destructive little scrotes who went a-rioting last week but has plenty more truly splendid people in it too.

Tim, I do sincerely hope that you are now sorted out one way or another and also that tomorrow goes as well as such things possibly can.

I sometimes think perhaps I shouldn't read these threads 'cos I just empathise too much and can almost feel myself welling up in sympathy; been there, know just what it feels like.

We've also had a cat who simply refused to eat anything whatsoever at the vets; the nurses were trying to hand-feed him bits of fresh tuna & chicken - total no-go. He had a busted pelvis and they didn't want to release him till he'd passed some solids. Soon as he was home he ate, and we went into the bizarre situation of praying for cat poo. And in time, we got some.

I'm sure you've done all the right things, including bringing her home again now. Test results all being normal should be grounds for being cautiously optimistic because at least that rules out some of the really ghastly causes which could have been behind it.

Feel for you both, Lynda, and have gone right back to sending positive thoughts - for you both. All very best wishes.