Hm, just thinking about the name option here... would it be really that tough? Couldn't you just put the name of the parent post into a variable, pull the next record, get that printed with the parent's [Re:Name], and put the current name into that variable... maybe this sounds too easy to be do-able. I would definitely prefer the name option! While the numbers are a good idea, it looks a bit confusing and I haven't yet once tried to find the post number, maybe it just needs getting used to... BTW I'm a flat mode fan... I like to pull one page (posts set to 99 per page <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> ) and read it all without having to click on the individual posts and waiting for them to show up.