and also - to do with the ID's...
in the table for news i have.. i have id author message date
the first 2 posts are - ID 1 and 2 the others are - 16+ wheres the other 15 gone? is it cos i had to change the message type to BLOB? (as it was varchar (255) i couldnt fit the whole post on!

) can anyone help with that too?