You must be using a very old release of 9 (I found several in my searching and was unable to identify the "current" one-good thing I found the original installer). I never updated to 10 and the forums work fine for me, and they do no complaining whatsoever.
Then again, I'm still on XP-are you by chance on Vista?
I downloaded an archive pack which went up to r159 and the uninstaller, followed included directions
Oh, and vista
Edit: I'm a dumbass, only ran the activeX installer and not the plug in
works fine