Maybe I'm still not understanding your explanations, but I can't believe I'm the only one with a problem!!
My interpretation of your previous replies is that "Marking all topics as read" on the main board will prevent the "new" tags from returning on the old posts. But, that it hasn't been fixed like that for the Archive yet.
Meanwhile, I keep getting all those old "new" items and have to keep marking them as read. When I first come, I don't want the "real" new ones to be marked as read, so I can't click on that.
Today they were all back again. I noticed that a couple of the fixed topics at the top of the main discussion board said new, even though their last date was some time ago. So, I clicked on thosed 2 to "get rid of them." That's when I figured all the others were probably back, so before checking for my real new posts, I brought up Luciaphil and Robservations and then the Discussion Archives and sure enough, they were filled with new items.
Even after eliminating all of that, it took forever for the new items to appear. It turned out that all of the old posts from the main discussions were also brought up - more than 8000 posts!!!!!
Sorry to be so long-winded with all of this!! Anyway, #1 - why doesn't my "Marking all posts as read" on the main board fix it, as I thought you said it would? And, #2 - why doesn't anyone else have this problem? I can't imagine that no one else would mention it if it happened to them.