Man, I'm such an idiot.
When I first started hanging out on FC, I use to manually go to each forum and see what I wanted to read. Then about a year ago I found the "new posts" button on top, boy did that make things a lot easier. Now I only had a couple pages of all new threads/posts to go through.
Then the only thing I hated was if a real popular thread got 15 new pages in a day or two, or I was gone for a week or two and the new posts piled up to 15 pages in a particular thread, I had to either start near the beginning or start at the end and backtrack through 15 pages, (on dial-up) to find where I left off.
Well, just today I found that little down pointing arrow or chevron looking thing right at the beginning of each title to each thread, that says "go to first new post"