Ed, glad to help... hope this helps. You will find once after your first few times into the forum, it will be like your best friend
Couple of things:
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1. How do I create a new post (ie where is the little button that says: 'new post'?)
1) For Creating a new post there is a big blue button (just below the search window) that says NEW POST. If you are in the forum you want to post a new topic in that button will create a new post for you
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2. How do I consolidate all posts under the OP like on the old forum it was an option on the top right, now when I open up a topic all the postings show up in entirety and I have to scroll through all to get to the most recent.
2) I think you are asking how do you view the lasted post on a thread, instead of going through all the posts to see the lastest one... when you are viewing the list of discussion thread you can click on the latest post link, and that will take you to the latest post and not have to scroll through all the other posts to read the one you want.
Hope this helps