Sigh. I've given up & retreated to Foxfire. Having to use the bloody trackball, not being able to search a thread, and not being able to use my sig routine are lesser annoyances than always being a GUEST and not being able to post texts without their coming out double-spaced.

Of course, nobody else here uses a sig routine; but I tend to think of the Forum as the monster that sucked all the juice out of rec.music.folk, so it was nice to be able to pretend, to some extent, that I was still posting on a newsgroup.