Is there a way to mark the messages as read?  I get excited when i see the NEW! but there isnt anything new there [cry]

I'm not sure!  For me when there is a new post to the board the little note pad in front of the forum name is red.  When there are no new posts the folder is grey.

Another thought I had- Is there a way to only show the posts that are like say 5 days old and put the old posts that no-one has posted to for say 5 plus days in another spot?  I always get confused with all the old posts!

Good questions!

Firstly, if you use the forum's bread crumb trails (those things at the top of the forum window that says what forum and thread you're in - like the photo below)
instead of using your browser's back button after reading a post that you don't reply to, the software should automatically mark the post as "read" (thus, there will be now "new" icon next to it, and the forum folder will turn grey.)  If that doesn't work, then there is a link at the bottom of EACH forum that says "Mark Forum as Read".  If you click that, it should remove all the "new" icons next to each thread that has already been read.

As for the moving of the old threads, currently there's no way to do that, but maybe with the new website software, maybe something along those lines is possible.

Thank you Ramsey...i searched everywhere for the Mark Messages Read, of course it was right in front of my face! thank you again!