Hi Tom— Welcome to the Forum. Unfortunately our fearless leader, Don McRitchie has stepped away from the forum and rarely pops in these days. I am hoping he'll get involved and fix our site as it is currently bogged down and crawling, requiring a lot of patience from any of us who are not using a dial-up modem as a point of reference.
The answer to both of your questions is to create a new thread in the appropriate area. Go to the subform area of interest and create a new thread. See pic below.
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