…probably with an easy, dumb answer that will cause me to slap myself in the forehead for being so dumb as to post it where a bunch of pretty intelligent people will see it and interpret it to mean that I’m a moron who can’t figure stuff out for himself or punctuate/ edit a long-ass run-on sentence either!
GASP!! Here goes:
What’s with the blue, downward pointing arrows to the left of some of the post subject lines?
Astro cringes…
If you click the blue arrow instead of the thread title, you will immediately be taken to the first post in that thread since you last logged on, thus skipping all posts you may have already read.
That’s your simple answer for ya 
Thanks Coldfire!! Actually I don’t feel as stupid right now as I expected to, as I did try to click on one of the arrows before I oped this thread, and nothing happened… maybe I missed the arrow…
Anyhoo, thanks!
Just tried it, and it works!
Pretty cool!
There are also blue arrows facing to the right on the main menu screen that open the last thread posted to for that forum.