Thank you Ian, I agree although I don't see why the forum needs to be protected. All I asked for was to come and use the forum again after not really doing anything wrong in the first place - I was even told this was fine. This is what I have tried to do. I understand there may have been 'trolls' in the past but it's not my intention to cause problems on the forum, all I want to do is use it - pretty simple.
I notice that one member on here starts insulting disabled people and there is no warning or anything - I forget to put suggsy's name next to a link and 7 IP's later here we are.
Since the admin 'no long has the time' to talk about this there is not much else I can do.