I have not found a way to reverse the message ordering. The reason is that the threads are generated "on the fly" by the PHP script, so at the beginning of the generation, it does not know how many messages there will be. When you reverse the order, it just calls them up in reverse. If I can figure out the total # of posts beforehand I can make it happen, I just have to study the mySQL documentation and hopefully come up with the right database query to do just that.