Apparently nobody had posted in the past two months, so when I went to the forums, nothing showed up and there was some error text. It took me a while to figure out that the default was to only show posts in the last two months. I think something more approriate is to show the (10 or so) most recent posts so that something is guaranteed to appear and it does not look broken.
Brant Gurganus
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~gurganbl