Couldn't find anywhere else to put this, so here goes.
I took the liberty of separating out your post into a new topic. This will allow others to learn from our discussion. For future reference, you can always just click on the button at the bottom left that says "new topic" when you want to create a new topic.
Why must I log in right after I hit the "post reply" button and then again after I try to "submit" the post? Seems like if I don't get it all typed out within a minute or two I have to log in again.
This is rather annoying, especially since the system likes me to type my username, password, and hit log, repeat, repeat, and finally, repeat before the system accepts it.
Oh yeah, and why doesn't HTML work in my posts?
Because you probably have "Disable HTML in this post" and/or "Disable BBCode in this post" checked. You can find more information about these features here: