I noticed a couple of the forums topics are private... was just wondering how I might get access to them?

Such as.. the CO -existing conditions private forum.

PM the moderator of that forum. The nice thing is that they are just that-private. Nothing discussed on the private forums is to be discussed on the public forums. It is nice to have a safety net like that and a place to talk about things we don't want public or just want to discuss privately.