Damn, Isaac, I totally missed that. Here's what he wrote in the email that he sent me with the screenshots.

"The first pic is the screenshot of the Engine Shop forum. I click on the black new thread ribbon and I get the second screen. After a few seconds, I get sent back to the first screen."

I have now asked him to click on the New Thread link AND the ribbon and let me know what each one does. I've never clicked on the ribbon, so I had no idea what it does. I'm pretty sure we can mark this problem as solved now.