Welcome, Kelly. The time will pass before you know it. It's something we have in place to protect the community from would-be spammers and flooding of the forums.

I don't know if you know this, but your PM'ing option is unlimited. You might want to get your five posts in, but PM individual responses during this time. It helps. Then when you've passed this period, you can copy and paste your responses from PM to the thread if you want.

KD