It seems to be working, I only get flooded with the trader zone things once in a while now (say every 12 hours i suspect), but it is alot better as I now have a lot less blindspots as to what is going on!
The rest of the subfora are updated as normal as far as I can tell, which makes me all warm and fussy, since I can start reading everything that comes in as i used to do... Who knows, I might end up posting once in every 10-15 topics I read... that would be alot of posts...
Thanks a lot Blackhat, well I better get out there and read up!