Sorry Ray, I'd missed your opening question, thanks William I had a feeling that the subject was mentioned somewhere but my memory is like a sieve, I'm getting old.
Up until recently we were due to get a new forum which would probably have sorted out this issue. Due to the credit crunch the new forum has been shelved and the gentleman who was working on it at Haymarket was redeployed elsewhere within the company.
From what I can gather the technical resources now available to this forum are so limited as to be practically non existent so I'm afraid it looks as though we have to work with what we have for the time being. I agree that the comments box is a nuisance and creates difficulties for forum users and moderators alike.