Thanks for letting me know that "marked as done" is not the same as the question I first asked. I was wondering when I wrote the original post if I had done something wrong and was being blocked for some reason. Seems the explantion is that the topics had been closed and I just didn't realize that was the case.
Spoilers....I still have no idea, but I'm not switching browsers and such. I have tried all different settings regarding popups and everything else I could think of. One of these days I'll probably need to clean out pc and reload windows and such.....if that happens and it makes a difference, I'll post update on the Spoilers post I asked a long while back.
Good voyages