Don't bother i have found better forum software elsewhere as i am sure other members will too . The forum support staff there are much more friendlier and deal with any issues promptly, which is how it should be.
No problem at all with it on my site. It is probably down to your PC running a bit slow or your ISP throttling your connection speeds as quite a lot do this. Check your speeds using one of the various broadband speed testers
Simple > Go to Admin > Users > Groups > Click on the required group in question, Now to the right of "Nickname color" you will see the colour pallet, Click on this to choose your groups colour. Scroll down and click Save
Remember your members have to be in the group in question for there user names to show in the set colour, This can be done by Admin only by going to there profiles and putting them in the group, remember to save afterwards.
Go to Admin > click the Extras tab and select " Activity Feed" Give your Activity-Feed name a Title such as "Latest Posts" Now Scroll down and make sure "Topic and Post" are checked Click Save
This will be shown at the top of your forum and auto updates
Simple, Go to the post in question - Click on Edit > scroll down to "Mark Thread As Sticky" and click on it, put a check in "Normal Behaviour" then click Submit