Yeah, I noticed that too. In small print, you'll see a link at the top of the page, it reads "Click here to view Articles and comments.", however you can change your bookmarks to this to get back to the regular latest posts page.
http://www.freeRepublic.com/perl/latest?forum=1&ao=0
Thanks for the info., Kim.
I'm driving to Breckenridge (from St. Louis) today/tomorrow...so I'll be off this thread for awhile, but please keep me "pinged". TIA