How come the Icon doesn't show up on any forum for topic where you have posted? Is there a way to fix this?

That icon shows up when 'new posts' have been made to forums for topics where you have posted.

HMMM..... am I missing something I am not seeing it. For instance I dont see the little blue star on this forum and I have posted here and you replied. I don't get it in my forum either on firefox or IE7.

Yeah I see what you mean. Well, I know its not a browser issue cause I use firefox exclusively and I've seen the blue star plenty of times, and on those rare occasions when I use IE they were there also.

I think most likely the reason for them not showing up sometimes is if you run a file cleaner on your computer that cleans it of temp files, cookies, etc.. it erases the memory that you ever visited that page or posted in it. I run one every few days, so perhaps thats the reason.