I see no drop-down boxes above the Recent posts box, with or without dates, kempie.
But then I can't see much anyway, and IE7 has been let out of the asylum since the lunatics that took it over have themselves been taken over by the hyperlunatics, so the text size control doesn't work any more than anything else about it. Firefox's zoom does, but in funny places, and has otherwise gone off the lunacy scale altogether in its latest incarnation. But it did enable me to see that the illegible running ribbon above the Recent posts box, which I had hopefully clicked at your suggestion and had my computer shanghaied by, was the hiding place for all the popups I had blocked.