Thanks guys.
FYI: I'm kind of embarrassed to admit, but we do have a "i should be in charge" knucklehead in our forum. He was making some nonsense complaint about being uncomfortable with myself and other mods having access to his IP address, browser type & referring website info via the "who's online" island.
I suspect that the site's owner somehow turned off this feature from the fileserver side merely to get this complainer to shut up. And/or to prevent me from telling people how people interested in our forum are finding it.
Sad, but probably true.
So be it.