No problem coop, I agree with you about that one in particular. I just reread my post about thinking the election crap would go away with the fannie freddy debacle and a quick check on the right, all the active topics are related to r/e and finance (except this one), suprise, the wait is over.
I have also found the active topics looking funny sometimes (vanishing or not accurate as to being active), logging out and logging in solves the problem sometimes.