>the forums i subscribed to where collapsed (as i had setup for it to do).
>however the VfP forum did not show at all. in my setup i have it setup as "Automatic reset of new messages " (i still don't quite understand that one after reading the explanation in the setup), "Expand message nodes", and of course the subscribe checkbox is checked.

I don't know why the VFP forum did not show up. I'll do some research on that.