What you see on a single screen depends a lot on how large your browser window is, the size of your monitor and the font size you have chosen. Thus, YMMV.
The way this forum software works, a Mod can "split" a thread, which creates a second thread from some posts, but we can't "merge" two threads into one . . . it just doesn't allow us to do that. So the suggestion made isn't technically possible.
Derek created those initial 6 threads when he opened these forums and folks have posted under some of them. Merging them together (even if possible) would mix up 6 states laws into one long thread, making it very difficult for anyone to make heads or tails of what applies where. This would make that one thread damn near useless and defeat the entire purpose (regardless of sticky, announcement or normal status).
Remember as new folks (like the OP) join us, the stickies are there so that you might find the answers to important questions quickly without posting the same question that has been answered 3 times before.
Perfect? No, but I do think that it is the best we can do short of creating some long FAQs (which experience tells us, most folks never look at).
Hope that explains the situation.
