Thank you Tom and Ian. It was late and I should have been more precise. Yes, the Index sub-forum is still there but no longer contains the link to Steve's index as pointed out by Ian. So in summary we now have an Index that does contain an index link in effect no index in Index! I was simply interested in finding a How To item and always used the Index as the start point of drilling down unaware of Ian's praiseworthy News item but it does seem to have upset the apple cart.
On a wider point the structure of the How To is odd, the only place on A2OC that has sub-forums. These are not being used correctly, for example there are two posts in the sub-forum Index that have nothing to do with the index, in my opinion the Index sub-forum should contain only Steve's post and that's it and be closed for further sub-forum posts.
There is also the problem of being able to post directly in How To at a higher level than the sub-forums which is really making the sub-forum structure redundant, this should not be possible. Surely any member wishing to post a new 'how to' should be be forced to select the relevant sub-forum for posting, that way the structure works.
Just thinking.
Andy