I like most everything about the change, but there seems to be one error. The "log me on automatically each visit" option no longer seems to work. I have checked it every time I came onto the forum since the update and it's never worked. It always worked previously. Is there any way that this can get fixed?

Try clearing all the cookies from the board (at the bottom of the forum list there is a link)

I tried that, it still doesn't work. Should I try clearing my entire IE history? Might that work, even though the "clear cookies" button didn't? Or is there a different problem?

why not