Lynn,
I use the "10 most recent posts" in the forum all the time.  I like it because I don't have time to go thru each topic.  It would be great if that could be expanded to the 10 posts previous to that.  Sometimes I do not catch all the posts since I am only on-line a couple of times a day (if I'm lucky).  And, as your number of clients increase, I expect there will be a lot more posts.