I have yet ANOTHER suggestion for making navigation a little easier. Allow me to explain:
I was recently in an old thread that was 98 pages long. I wanted to look at something that was on page 67. Unfortunately, the only way to navigate to that page was to click in the page numbers at top or bottom, which allowed me to move through the thread two pages at a time. So it was, click on page 10, wait for it to load, click on page 12, wait for it to load, click on page.... well you get the picture.
How about a feature to enable us to move more than two pages at a time through threads? A 'Jump to Page' box perhaps?