That's the number one typical newbie mistake -- comment on a thread that's been dormant for three years.

I used to wonder how it was that so many newbs were so dumb as to do this, but one day I googled some issue and was instantly referred to an old old thread here. Kudos, Daniel, for the site being in google's crosshairs! This does mean, though, that we'll repeatedly have newbies being helpful too late to matter.