Hi LaMarca, I also have this problem after vacation. I do not know how to do what you are explicitely looking for, but here is my solution:

I usually use this adress (http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm?Title=&Age=5) to access this page. Now you can set the "Age=.." to any value you like and get exactly the last n days. So you do not have to bother with 14 days when you have actually been away for lets say 11 days. Yes, it starts slowly, but there will be only few threads on the distant days (the more interesting ones have "moved up" on the time scale). And then you set the age down to 10, 9, 8, and it is getting faster from day to day.

But I do hope you do not need this advice and next time I can also profit from the "professional" response to your question.

Regards Wolfgang