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That wasn't the problem Dave. I'm aware of the time-out feature. The problem came because the forum software recognised that I'd signed in in a different window to the one I was working in. It won't happen again because from now on, I'll just be posting normally.
I'm not arguing about it any more. I'll just carry on as before.
dont know about IE but i usually have at least 3 FF tabs open (in opera)and have no timeouts in any