Oh yeah I forgot about the Abyss. It's basically somewhere you can move a thread where only the current Secretary and President can see it. That lets you save something that you may not want to be publicly accessible but may be needed in the future - for example if there was any possible criminal acts discussed. There are rules about deletion of electronic communication for corporations and rather than trying to understand them (and they change!) I find it easier to just "banish" rather than deleting.
As for the password... I've never had the problem personally, do you mean it doesn't accept your password, or it seems to accept it but then you are not actually logged in?
Christopher Mallon
FIDE Arbiter