1) I highly doubt that the contributions have come anywhere close to the operating costs of the mudcat RADIO show, let alone the MudCat.

2) to describe the online searching capabilities of the DT and Forum as "woefully poor" is ridiculous. They aren't as good as we woul;d like, but given familiarity with the various systems you can find just about anything. or god forbid, you could ask for help.

3) the answers to your questions are in the forum. They have been there for some time.