DoctorLarry:BTW - we should not assume that someone does not have plenty of experience on forums just because they are new to this one. Some of us were on discussion forums back in the 1980's via BBS over 56K modems!
Yes, some of us were. And we were taught that necro posting is generally frowned upon and even prohibited in many discussion fora. In fact, back in the wild west of usnet, people generally flamed those who did that.
I'll concede that this discussion board may have different norms with respect to necro posting. Still, I stand by the statement that general discussion board decorum is that it's better to begin a new thread rather than resurrect an old thread. It causes less confusion, something we've seen on here with resurrected threads.
And as an aside, not to put too fine a point on it, but just because someone has been doing something for a long time doesn't necessarily mean they've been doing it correctly! :-)