I see you replied 17 hours ago, but not because I received an email notification from the forum. Nothing came in :-( As far as the forum goes, all I needed to do to get the email notifications of new replies was to add the topic to my favorites, correct? I'll have to check with Google support again about this.
I also have a personal email address. Is it possible to change my email address to that here on the forum? Seems like it would be easier if the email notifications work with personal gmail instead of hosted domain gmail.