The problem I described in my first post above is happening again. I've been offline for a week or so while I moved. I just got DSL access back again at my new place. I spent 3-4 hours yesterdat browsing thru back posts I'd missed. Today when I first went to log on, I got the "Max sessions exceeded...." message again & couldn't get into the site no matter what I tried for about 3 hours (I was able to visit any other sites I tried in the meantime, just not Renderosity). Can you think of anything else I can try? One other thing I've noticed is that threads used to change color after reading in the forums so I could keep track of which I've looked at - now it doesn't seem to happen more than 10% of the time.