Thanks very much for the suggestions -

Gizmo, I did that, and the post count increased.. (oops)

Charles, thanks - I have sent him the note explaining / reminding how it works - he is a long time user of my forum and I just guessed he knew what he was talking about - I was thinking removing posts from a couple of threads had messed up his post counter.. but that will teach me to think..

Cheers,
Bob