thanks amanda, i was thinking it was the subscription thing but i have it turned off

you can turn on notifications in the my profile settings - and under the settings and options list "Edit Options"
scroll down and can see
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Default Thread Subscription Mode When you post a new thread, or reply to a topic, you can choose to automatically add that thread to your list of subscribed threads, with the option to receive email notification of new replies to that thread.
Default Thread Subscription Mode:
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http://forums.psychcentral.com/profi...do=editoptions
you can set it to not send notifcations... set it to always send notifications.. or make it weekly or daily so that you will either get a list of notifications from all of your subscribed threads daily or weekly...
turning it on here should make every thread you post in a subscribed thread so you dont have to click the thread tools link at the top... but you may not want to subscribe to every thread so this might not be something everyone interested in