At the risk of also ending up with egg on my face....
1. Can we have a separate login for the forums? I'm always coming back to the forums throughout the day and having to log in each time is a nuisance I must agree. Surely the security issues (that are to do with taking payments on line I believe) are not such an issue in the forums alone.
2. Another thing that "annoys" me is that the cookie that's used to say "You've already seen this post" doesn't get reset very often. I'm guessing on the times here but I'll login at sat 7 a.m. Read some posts etc and log out. Then three hours later log in again and see that a thread is indicating a new post. On inspection it isn't a new post at all. I then know that I have to inspect every post to see what's new and what isn't. I'm not saying get rid of the time lag altogether as sometimes (on other forums) I can close the browser inadvertently and on coming back in find that all the threads have been reset to "read" which is even more annoying. Hope I've explained that OK