New member posts sometimes get put in a queue for moderation before the post can actually show up in a forum. The moderation queue is one of our spam control tools. This is what happened to your initial post attempts. They did get approved and posted, but that resulted in duplicate threads, each containing a single post, and those posts were near duplicates. I merged the two threads and two posts down to a single post in a single thread that (hopefully) contains all of the information from both posts.