>You said that one of the changes you would implement would be a button or something that would enable one to get the New messages for other forums. IOW, if I set "Enable for reading new messages" in the Forum settings to only one of my 4 subscribed-to forums, then the New messages icon will only reflect when there are new messages for that one forum and that there will be some other way to determine the new messages for the other forums.

Yes, exactly.

>Right now it seems that the "Enable for reading new messages" seems to work ok, but whatever happened to the rest of it? I see no new buttons for retrieving other new messages. Have you not implemented this yet?

It is not done yet.