wow, my poor language skills are not helping communicate what's happening clearly, so I have resorted to my even worse visual skills. At this URL http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/maxq/Now_no_new.jpg you can see what the Miscellany forum looked like when I opened it to reply to you. This is how it has looked all day. This URL
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/maxq/Before_new.jpg shows an example of what it used to look like. I have manually coloured in the book icons next your post and that from CapK, both new for me. That orange highlighting made it so much easier to know which threads had new posts. I still get the "new" icon above each individual post in a thread. Please accept my apologies for failing to express myself more clearly.