Ray,
The way I do it is to go to the "Forums" tab near the top of the page and choose the appropriate forum from the menu. Once that forum page loads there is a blue "New Thread" button just above the framed section with all of the existing posts.
Hope this makes sense to you and helps.
Cheers,
Charles
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