Janet, the software for this forum is not very robust. Did you go away from the page on which you were replying to look up something elsewhere on the forum? That's another way of losing your post because you can't return to it with the back button, you just get another opportunity to recreate your post. The way to manage that one, and a lot of other glitches, is to do nothing on that page but write your post, preview it, and post it. If you want to do something else, like search other posts for a link, say, then open a new page from the Finder/Desktop, open the forum on that page, and then search in that page.
