My preferences are set the same way as yours, but the results are different.
I can never see more than your last 40 posts in your area. In my comment area and in the comment area of most Freepers you can follow our comments back forever.
Being a technical guy, this bugs me. I want to know how it is done. :-)
Not being a technical gal, I can't be positive, but I can tell you what I think is going on....
I've noticed that if someone doesn't post for maybe two weeks, all their latest posts disappear from the "In Forum" page, and it just says "no posts".
I think what happened is that Daus didn't post for a while, then began posting again, so his posts started over with the first one after the absence, and when you, Jeff, started counting, there were only 40 there.
Of course, I could be wrong.