You can search older posts, just limited to one year at a time. It is a bit of a pain, but if you don't find what you want in 'newer than 1 year' (or know it is older than that), you can search for 'newer than 2 years' and 'older than 1 year', then 'newer than 3 years and 'older than 2 years', etc until you find it.
I suppose limiting the search range speeds up the results and helps prevent people from resurrecting old topics, but it makes it harder if you know you have seen a certain problem / solution / trick before somewhere and are trying to find the details.
With the PM amount increase, I now have less than 3 times the limit.
Any way to export / download PMs? I tried a web site downloader with the old forum, but was unable to get it to properly download more than the index page...
