I found out about setting the time after clicking some of those things at the top to see what they would do. I miss the old layout but am warming up to the new look. Lots of bell and whistles to explore. At first it was a bit overwhelming and it seemed like you needed a user manual to learn to drive this thing but a little exploring helps. I figured if clicking on something would break it, it wouldn't be there
I never used the spell checker in the old forum, I used the spell checker in Outlook Express, it is excellent. Just open up "new mail" and copy and paste text into an email then hit F7 for spell check.