thank you. that was a better answer than move away and change your name.
perhaps i was not clear enough..call me crazy but i thought password protected would mean that the posts would..i don’t know..be protected with a password.
the posts itself are not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. i am just wondering how this has happened and what can be done so that the password protected option may actually work next time. thanks for the lectures and sarcasm though.