I'd like to participate in the forum

I have completed registration and filled out my profile but it seems I can do very little. A couple of time I am told I do not have enough permissions (One was following a link to a response in a diferent thread than the one I was reading, the second time when I tried to uplad a picture to my profile)

Also, I have posted a couple of questions AND answers but I am told it will be looked at but there is no way to see the status of the, I search by my username to find my own contributions and find nothing.

Also I think I have subscribed to a couple of threads and at least one had an update but I saw no email.

Thank you for your help.(i hope this does not get lost also)