Hi John,
Your thread had become too long. It's not easy (understatement) for new people to understand your story and your background without reading 50 pages. Reading that amount of texts will take hours and hours and probably only a few will take that effort. It's also a problem for the technical side of the forum, because loading so many pages makes the forum slower.
You are free to continue in a new thread, preferable using different subjects for the topics. A clear presentation goes two ways: 1. If you want to share information with other people, a clear presentation will ensure that people will understand you. 2. For members of the forum, it will be much easier to jump in, even if they haven't followed you for years.
If you want some help to organize your content, then I am more than willing to help you.