wrote my long story here for the past 2 days in a row after logging in. with my login showing on this page. when I click submit am told "not logged in" so login again. then told to back up to previous, which is login page, so back up again to this new thread page and my long post is gone from this box. do it in a library with time limit, forced to give up.what am i doing wrong here???

I would say that you should copy the entire box before you click submit. If you login before posting the thread it should hold the login, but your library may have some security on the machine that wont let it stay logged in.

It probably timed out. If it is a long story then you may want to write it in a word processor and the copy and paste.