Not really working for me. I have all sidebars and stuff turned off(and had for years). The only thing I have is the forum page with descriptions, but I only get about 10 posts.
As another poster suggested, maybe it also has something to do with your browser. I use firefox and setting the account preferences at 50 works.
The last couple of times this happened at FR it got corrected in some hours or so. Annoying, but not as annoying as when the whole site goes down. That drives me up a wall . . .