The thread deletion was simply an accident. As you all know that thread had taken a turn for the worse so while I was individually deleting all postings relating to it I accidently pressed the "Delete Topic" button instead of the "Delete Posting" ... oops. Sorry about that. Human error !!!!
And there is nothing wrong with TAFKA's old account. But he doesn't seem to be receiving the password through his Hotmail account even though it is being sent out. I suspect Hotmail's spam filter is mistakenly thinking it is spam and deleting it. I have since sent him the password to his regular email address. That's about all I can do. The only reason there was a problem at all was because he had registered more than once then changed his email address so both accounts had the same address, and at that point the BBS doesn't know what password to send where. I have fixed that for him now, so if he has received my own email response to him with his password he should be able to use "The Pro" once again.