I think you're making too much of this.

I know a little something about computers and I am an Admin for a forum and webmaster myself.

I could not, and still cannot, figure out why I could not post. Why would enclosing a text string in single quotes make the server pop an error message? Enclosing a text string in single quotes is a common enough device in the English language.

Was the Forum software written for some other language? I suspect, bordering on knowing, that it was not .

I could read the forum, I could post a short test message. Other people were posting to the thread I wanted to post to.

What other reasons are left?

I was frustrated over spending an hour plus trying to figure out a problem that doesn't have an rational reason to exist.

Don't over think this.