David,

Did you try User Menu -> Edit your Preference -> Date Limit
have it show "all available topics"

If that's not working, let me know.

For image uploading, it looks like image uploading is about the same as before as documented here.

http://www.calfishing.com/help/posting_pictures.html

One thing to note is that if you want the pic to show up in the message, you check the box that says to imbed the html link in the message. Then when you preview the message it should show the pic right in the message, and when you click post, it should show it inline in the message as well.