What may be happening is that the monitor that activates the "new posts" lightbulb reads your return to the overall forum list as a "new session" and therefore only lights the bulb if there has been an addition between the time you originally signed on that session and the "new session". Perhaps the solution is to make the light bulbs forum-specific (i.e., they do not get turned off until you actually access that forum) rather than session-specific?

[This message has been edited by Counsellor (edited 01-22-99).]