Welcome.
I will admit that I am only 'good' at diagnosing and fixing a machine if I am physically looking at it and able to see some of it's behavior.
You can also download some malware removers called Spybot Search & Destroy, and Lavasoft's Ad Aware.
http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
http://www.lavasoft.com/support/download/#free
Same problem exists still. I verified that the smallest setting on a friends computer still has show the bold tags on this forum not like the second example I posted in #10. What would be causing this on my computer? Can someone set their view to smallest and tell me which of the 2 examples in my post#10 their forum appears. (Note when scanning threads, all appears normal UNTIL you open a thread, and then it appears differnet.)