>I've logged in twice this morning and both times I got the warning about over 500 messages and of course ALL topics were NOT expanded.
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>Trouble is, neither time was I at 500 messages!!!!
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>UPDATE: Even just clicking the Refresh icon gives the over 500 messages message.
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>UPDATE2: This is a REAL pain!!! When it thinks that it has over 500 messages, why doesn't it expand the FIRST 500 anyway??????
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>Also, I would like clarification on the UNexpanded forums... this morning I had 233 messages in the .NET forum but I have it set to NOT auto-expand and it also has the little icon so *I* can reset message count as I want. DOES THIS COUNT IN THE 500 LIMIT??? I should think it should not, since it starts out UNexpanded.

Could you clear the cache and restart the browser just to see if that is related to that?