I am a Spark pilot as well and I get emails for the responses to my threads in the SparkPilots forum but I am not getting them here for some reason so if any of you respond to something of mine and I don't respond in a timely manner, that is why.
Just in case you didn't... maybe try logging out and back in to pick up the new settings, that all I can think of. If nothing else pm an admin to look at it.