[Lynne]

1. This won't be easy at all. Right now, the order is saved in the forumcache so a query doesn't need to be done all the time to grab them. If you need them reordered everytime a thread is created, that is going to require some custom coding and I don't think I've seen a mod that does anything like that. If you want to write the code changes yourself, you will have to search out the code used to save the forum info to the cache when you make forum changes in the admin cp and then use it to write the forum info to the cache every time a new thread is made.

2. There is a modification for that. I just saw it bumped within the last couple hours. Search through todays posts or just do a search in the mods forums for it.