so whats up with not being able to view thumbnails unless i click them? (including those in photo gallery)

 

happed ever sense the web site went down. also getting //\\; in place of spaces

 

Owners of site unwilling to upgrade to a modern forum application.

 

forum owners obviously dont care if they are aware and make no response

 

Not quite, it is being addressed, but there are a number of forums that are currently being upgraded. The problem is that they are trying to make it as transparent a change as possible and the new software has a problem in that it makes old links go dead and pages disappear.
Once that's been fixed it will be installed.