Can you post a link to the thread with the broken link?
It's a little unusual for that to happen. One example on how this can happen is the person who started the thread may have deleted post #1 which bring down the whole thread. There was that one guy, i hope I am right, I think it was TXBill(?) who asked the webmaster (Bill Wood) to delete ALL of his posts for some odd reason, so if that thread was created by TXBill, it's just gone....deleted. Or maybe the moderator of that particular forum deleted the thread? (Moderators can only "mess" with their own forum, BTW). Myself I normally only delete threads which have some time element involved, like a get-together for example which is over, and also posts about items for sale on EBay, after the auction is done. I'll also occasionally see a thread started on the forum I moderate which seems to be more appropriate in another forum, especially cars and parts for sale.

Gilly