Thanks Charles, we did remove it.
The problem is that we have very inexperienced users and OLD PEOPLE as visitors and a less cluttered bulletin board encourages people to sgn on to our few forums. We have had a positive response so far-
If things improve we may add this back at some point.
More a navigation/user thing than a UBB thing. Your help appreciated and I will take your advice SERIOUSLY (how's that for a compliment)
-thanks A LOT