Welcome to Excelsior, PSP LOVER and PSP-Freak. Enjoy the forums!
@ Mark: I rarely post in this forum because it is the same thing over and over again. But i've always pesronally thought that all welcome threads are pointless; everyone saying the same thing over for each individual person, but if you don't do it, random welcome threads will appear in other forums just so that they can get noticed, even if it is a "this is in the wrong forum, but welcome anyway".
Either way you can't win, but i do think Becky's suggestion is a good one; making it like the basement so your posts don't add to your post count.