I have noticed a slight problem with the forums:

when you try to make a new topic, if that name has already been used, it will bring the old topic back to the top of the list but it wont make your topic.

to stop this from happening, try to make more detailed topic names

something like adding in your name, or adding a date should help a lot.

such as, "please help jak2131"
or "jak needs help 02/10/11"

hopefully we can stop the forums from clogging up more