Hopefully this will get solved by the admins.....

But in the interim, one way around this problem is to go to the forum homepage (i.e. United, Coupon Connection, etc.) and right-click (this is using IE) and choose Open In New Window.

The "old" forum URL should appear in the Address bar.

Also, at least in IE, when you hover "the hand" over the list of threads in the forum homepage, the url should also appear in the Status bar (right above all the icons on the bottom of your screen when using Win-x).