Yeah, my original name was "noobsauce". I had no intention of "getting involved" with the project. FreeNAS has been my first forte into open source, NAS software, BSD, forum regular and probably more that I can't think of.
As for the post count, you can tell Xenforo to rebuild the index of message counts. So anytime some admin changes your post count, it's really only temporary. Anytime someone rebuilds the post index you get the correct count again. :P