The front page uses a pretty solid test to determine if scripting is turned on: Some script hides that message. QED, no script, message isn't hidden.

Let's get an objective judgment: Browser test page. If script is turned on it will report the fact on the first line, and also test popup windows (the test was originally designed to diagnose popup problems).

As for the Earlier buttons, I don't see that phenomenon except on the GeekSpeak board, which is a new board and simply doesn't have more than two pages of posts. Which board did you see this on?

Yep, the Zone is running slower than I'd like. Some improvement after the last revision, but not enough. I need to spend more time toiling in the bits-n-bytes mine.