O.K., Just found out that you can force the Jump List to take you back to the thread list by clicking on GO. Never tried that since normally you only have to select the forum from the list and it immediately jumps there. So that addresses one of my requests quite nicely.

Thanks.

P.S., I really do want to point out how well this site is put together and managed. I'm quite impressed. These few annoyances are trifling details compared to the problems on most sites.