How to Remove Redirect & Remove Threads/Posts Count?

[GloballyUnited]

Hello, I have two questions that I really need some answers too, as I am having difficulty figuring out how to do this one on my own. Any help in regards to the following questions will be greatly appreciated.

Question #1. When someone logs into a forum, it says " Thank you for loggin in XX, you are now being re-directed to the forum". I want to skip this step altogether and just take the individual straight to the forums. This is an additional page load that is not necessary. Is this possible? If so how do I remove this redirection?

Question #2. When you go to a forum, for example on VBulletin.orgs forum display. It has 55,000 posts and 100,000 threads for General Discussions, 20,000 and 100,000 for the other forum and so on. I don't want to show these numbers at all. I just want to show the forum name and the last post. The amount of threads/posts per forum is not necessary as I am not a number man. How can I do this?

Well I know there are some gurus out there so I am really hoping to get an answer to my questions. Thanks in advance, <3 VB!