Jim, I certainly appreciate your interest in furthering focussing arranger keyboard specific discussion here, and your points are well taken, but the bottom line is that both the forum members & our administrator (Nigel) have spoken, and the changes you've propsed have not met sufficient interest for Nigel to implement them. I've spoken with Nigel privately on the telephone and he says part of the reason is the limitation of the current Synthzone forum software itself, of, to institute your requests, would require taking the entire Synthzone forum down completely (losing access to all past postings) and starting all over again developing from scratch an entirely new forum with new software, which would require all members to register again as new members. In addition to the MANY long hours of programming work required to bring it all back again, all prior valuable postings (from 1999-2005) would be unretrievable via the new system. I'll admit that ours may not be the forum with the latest 'bells & whistle' features, but it (to me) is functioning quite well providing the most important feature of all, a place where arranger keyboard musicians and enthusiasts from around the world (and of all persuassions) to freely express themselves on all topics of common interest (principally arrangers of course), but with the occasional OT post now and then to promote friendship & commraderie as well.

Jim, if you (or anyone else here) has the time or inclination to build a better arranger kb forum "mouse trap", then I'm certainly all for it. I can't speak for Nigel, but I suspect that in addition to the current SZ forum maintenance work already being performed by him, that with his many other commitments already (9-5 day job, weekend gigging, etc, there's no time available for him to take on such a big project. In the meantime, I feel our forum remains the best arranger forum out there now and more than satisfying my arranger keyboard forum fix.- Scott