Pleeeese, is there a way we can increase the user timeouts?

Unless there is some cryptic way of getting around it, like enabling more java features of the site. I'm really getting tired of working out exactly how i wish to respond to a thread, only to hit the reply button and see the login screen again.. when I logged in just before attempting to reply.

Do we really have to write our posts in word then hit reply and paste it into the window?

cheers
Eric