None of the formatting options work when making a thread or new post (changing color, font, bold, italic, underline, adding links) along with the smilies on the right don't work (you click and nothing happens). I can't use quick reply because the button that activates it now does nothing when you click it and the forums have been abnormally slow. All this has resulted that I haven't done much posting because having to click reply and use the normal editor is annoying and I loved just using quick reply. Could this be looked into?

could be a java problem - could you have accidentally turned scripting off?

clear your temp files, then go to http://www.java.com/en/ and test your Java installation, and upgrade or reinstall it if necessary