Iantiger, you gave the impression in your first post that you were an experienced forums user. As a result, you should have known that your introductory topic, and this one, should have been in off-topic, which clearly states '
you can introduce yourself in this forum, as well as ask forum technical questions'.
And please get rid of your banner, it slows my computer down. It is 113kb in size, which is way over the 35kb limit imposed in the
rules.
It is generally considered courteous to find out about a board's local atmosphere before posting.