I like to think I am being a little scientific in my approch to my issues, but I am delusional, but happy.
I have had sucess with Google Chrome when it came to the log in, log out issues. It works on all levels. I made sure that boxes that needed checked or unchecked were just that, settings were verified and changed to how I needed them to be, and it is working.
My other issues however are still in play, such as I am unable to change my email, and of course the notifications for forum and threads to my email.
The forum help issue is for another time.
I will now address my issues with a second browser (Mozilla Firefox) and I shall see if that works.