"I just paid the hosting bill and found the payment process "odd" (the web package was listed as via PayPal but no paypal payment option existed - so I sent the payment to their e-mail address...). The company called me back with a "what's this money" type of comment. In the end, I was talking with the head admin and the ball of string unraveled regarding the SSL swap.
He said, do you have some time, let me look into this... The forum was set with FR4x4.com as the domain in use with FrontRange4x4.com as an alias - though in my time here FrontRange4x4.com (the long name) was the only name I used - everywhere. I would see and hear of the short name on a rare day. When he saw the issue he said - let's make the long name the account and let's have the short name redirect to the long name. Yes please! In a scant ten minutes on the phone - done.
1) The long name is the account
2) FR4x4.com redirects to FrontRange4x4.com
3) SSL cert for the short name is no longer an issue
An unexpected and fruitful phone call. I'm thankful.
Wrapping up the http call issues is still on my plate. Earlier today I search-n-destroyed several HTTP to HTTPS issues, but more exist.
edit: sweetness - "Back to top" is alive!
edit2: it looks like there is, for this page, one and only one http image call - icon1.gif"
you should reward yourself with some wheeling tomorrow