For what its worth I found out, trough trial and error, how I can make this board work for me, and offer this explanation to help anyone else who is having similar problems.

In order for FT to recognize me and show me via light bulbs and colored folders what is new each time I visit I had to set my "favorite" setting to the "Welcome to Flyer Talk Page" instead of one of the four board menu pages. When I get to the Welcome to FT page via my favorite link, I then click on any one of the four boards listed on the right side of the page: FT Miles, FT Travel, FT Dining, or FT Airports. When I do this all the light bulbs and folders work fine for that one board as long as I stay on that board. If I try to go to a second board the light bulbs and folders do not work the right way (sometimes they are all lit or none are lit or sometimes there are none) and the board does not recognize that I have been there before. In fact, there is nothing (no folder or words) on the bottom of the page where it usually says "contains new posts since last time you logged on."

But I found out that if I want to go to another board, say from FT Miles to FT Airport, the only way to get the bulbs and folders to work and to recognize that I have been here before, is to log off, go to my favorites list and click on FT which then brings me back to to the Welcome to Flyer Talk Page and then if I click on the second board, it works fine. To reach the third or fourth board and have it operate correctly requires me to log off and log on again via my favorite link to the Welcome page.

I am not computer savvy, but it seems that there should be/could be a much easier way to go between the four boards and have the bulbs and folders work properly. I have cable internet so logging off and on is super fast but in the past I used AOL (and still do occasionally at work) so I know how tedious and frustrating logging on and off can be. But if you want to view any one or up to all four boards and you want the bulbs and folders to work, you now have a way to make it so. You just have to log on and off FT from one to four times.

And yes I love the new boards too. I just wish that someone from FT would let us know if these are problems they know about, or are working on, or looking into etc.

And no matter what I try I have to enter my Username and password each time I post a new message from a different log on session. FT only remembers my username and password if I multiple post during the same log on session.

[This message has been edited by amazing nj (edited 07-10-2001).]