I've noticed one thing regarding my original thread and thought I'd post it here in case anyone knew how to fix it.

With the new message icons, they correctly show up on the main list of the forums, but when you click on an actual forum, there aren't any new message icons.

Well, I've noticed that if there are new messages while I have been browsing that the new message icon will correctly show up. And this is from various forum to forum. So I think there is a part of the code that is checking the last visited date incorrectcly. Not quite sure of how one would go about fixing this. But my guess is that Internet Explorer has a last visited date value (cookie) that holds it's value, while Firefox's value (cookie) somehow is updated when you go from the main list of forums to a specific forum.

Anyone have any ideas? Would be nice if this software was Firefox-friendly. It's a much better browser than IE IMO.