I don't know what you mean by "count" there brad, it seems fine on this end.
As to the polls, we can't really change that.
Punbb is a pre made board system that's a little like one of those flat pack sets of furniture. You get the system, you then have certain settings to play with, and there are a number of extentions that may be downloaded to do extra stuff if you want. Some extentions, ---- like the ones to do with avatar images, obviously Sander didn't bother installing, and others, like the security capture have been disabled.
Obviously this system makes the forum a lot easier both to manage, and to install, sinse if Richard and Sander would've had to write their own bb system they wouldn't have been able to code the database, ---- which is afterall the important thing.
The polls thing was simply an extention that I happened to see on the list of available ones and thought would be a helpful feature to have on the forum.
I can't control how it's displayed or how it works, it really is a wysiwyg situation, ---- that is, what you see is what you get.
And to be honest, just having to type numbers istead of a list box doesn't really seem too bad to me at all, indeed it is in one way better sinse if you wanted a poll to expire after say a year for some crazy reason you could do that quite easily, where as it'd mean having a very large listbox to go through otherwise.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)