Here's an idea.
Kind of like the 'view new posts' option, but different. How about an option to see all the forums that you have replied to that have new replies in them.

Say, i post in a forum called 'Unexplained Mysteries' which someone else started.
After my post, someone else posts. Then the forum would appear in the 'My Forums' category at which point i could click on it and be taken to that forum to the last reply i had read.

Kinna like the "View My Posts" thingy you get on php boards?
Yeah, that's a good idea.

That's already an option. At the bottom of every main category page there is a Subscribe to this forum link you can click to track new replies in every thread. In each seperate thread thats started, there is a Track this topic link that will track new replies to that specific thread. You can access the new replies via the subscriptions links in your profile control panel.

Magikman

Thanks for pointing that out Magikman.

So, if i got this straight, i can click on 'Track this Topic' to add it to, if you will, 'my topics' and then i can see those topics and how many new posts are in each topic in 'my subscriptions'. Alternatively i can track a forum itself and see all the new replies in a forum the same way?

Yes, that is correct.

Case closed. Thank you very much.

once, in another forum, tracking the topic was a default. so every single topic i posted in was automatically tracked. i got about twenty e-mails a day telling me what topics had been newly posted in. i was going coo-koo, because i couldnt figure out why it was doing that, and here i was getting all these e-mails with links to the topics. took me about a month to figure out that i could click the 'dont track this topic' button to stop the madness (this was the first forum i had ever joined).

great story, huh?