Thank you for your advice. Some details:

- I cleared the IE cache and history, no effect
- changed IE's cache lookup from 'automatically' to 'every time', no effect
- I have been a frequent visitor to FT using the exact same computer and configuration since August 2001, and this is the first time I experience those problems; this is my work computer, no sharewhare/spyware/freeware etc. installed
- am an experienced computer user...
- 'reply counter' not matching the number of posts: rare and sporadic problem. Most recently occured in FT Miles\OMNI and FT Miles\KLM forums. Now cannot replicate this issue.
- regarding the discrepancy between the last post date and time, this only occured in some FT Travel forums, such as Paris (shown: 1/20/02, 8:33am ; actual: 1/22/02, 5:54pm), Asia (shown: 1/19/02, 4:33pm, actual 1/23/02, 7;23am)... This with a completely empty, freshly flushed cache
*** UPDATE: while I was writing this this specific problem went away, at 1:28PM FT time ***


Please do not waste your time trying to solve my problems, if nobody else notices these symptoms.

Anyway, I am much more enclined to blame Microsoft than the FT server.

Thanks for the feedback!