   Thanks for your responses, Fool Zero and darkrunner. After doing some experimenting with another member on at the same time as me I have figured out that the "+" symbol by the names of Recent Visitors to my profile page denotes those who are either Friends or Contacts, and the "*" symbol after my name wherever I am on the site does indeed denote "invisibility," or what I refer to as "stealth mode"  , a moot point actually now that I am emerging from hibernation. See y'all around the Forums! 
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"I walked a mile with Pleasure; she chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser for all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her when Sorrow walked with me!"
(Robert Browning Hamilton; "Along The Road")
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