...and as for the bumping issue, please ignore my posts regarding this... I have read up on it and there is a "bump" button (go figure!).... so nothing to do with what I thought!
It's interesting the comments that have come from this... you never had the original post date before on the old forum... it's not on zpost, or bimmerfest.... in fact I don't know anywhere that has it.
I am working on a solution so that you can know if an old thread has been revived, but I think using half the line to show the date of every post, just in case an old thread has popped back is not the neatest option.