By the way, in spite of all the shortcomings of our forums software, a time-limit on searches is something you will find at almost any forum. Try world of warcraft or any public forum, and you will find that many of them limit to one search per minute.

This is to prevent 'flooding' or other denial of sevice attacks on the forums, because searches are very processor intensive.

We added manual approval because some users would hop in, leave inappropriate ads or comments, and offend users before we could remove the posts. Blame those bad apples for that particular policy change.

In any case, we'll make the best of what we've got, and try to make it a fun and safe place for our valued community and fans!! Yay!