newbie posting/editing threads

Hi,

I'm new to these forums, and I'm having some general trouble with posts and editing
posts. I searched the forum for help but could find none. (if there in fact was some, or if there is a sticky or something that addresses my questions I missed, I apologize)

The problems:

When I make a new post, my text default color is black and it starts with some html code underlined with the spelling error red underline. This is not a big deal, I just delete, change my text to white and go, but:

When I edit a post, it changes all my bbcode/text formating to html and it becomes unreadable (for me anyway). What am I doing wrong? I'm using firefox. When I make a new post it says "HTML disabled" in left margin.

Sorry/thanks in advance! = )

I thought this seemed familiar. I only use IE but read this: http://www.snarkpit.net/forums.php?forum=1&topic=8109&6

Thanks! = )

(this answers the question but I don't see the "Question answered" toggle)

That's because this isn't an editing forum.