Time Error and Log In Drop outs

[Impromptu]

Hi Lynne (and everyone),

Just doing some research and this comment exactly explains my situation:
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Article is titled 'vBulletin bug with post time stamp or security token'

There seems to be a bug in the vBulletin forum software (currently at Version 4.0.3) that iTulip uses. Occasionally a new post to a thread gets the wrong time stamp, typically sometime years in the past, causing the post to be misplaced near the top of its thread as an old post. Often at about the same time, one gets an "invalid security token error" when trying to post, which can sometimes be cleared by refreshing the page and trying the post again. That can be annoying if it causes one to lose the text of ones post.

It seems that one can actually track down when such incorrectly time stamped messages have been posted by

1.doing an "Advanced Search",
2.click on "Search Single Content Type",
3.find posts "A Year Ago" and "Older",
4.sort results by "Last Posting Date", "In Ascending Order",
5.show results as "Posts",
6.and click on "Search Now".
Examine results (approximately) #34 through #49 of the search results. These will all be replies dated in the first few months of 2003. Those timestamps are more or less all certainly incorrect. In each of the cases that I examined, when looking at the thread containing one of these 16 posts dated 2003, the thread was rather obviously running in the last year or two (2008 through 2010.)
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That is if I press F5 it will work but then it will occasionally go to the wrong time and usually about 17 minutes in the future.

Thanks again Lynne, but I'm a newbie in the I.T sector

Cheers

Jay