Problems "replying"

I cannot reply! I can obviously start a new thread but for some reason I cannot reply. I will select "quick reply" or any other of the options to do this and after I type my message I receive an error message that my message is too short and must be at least one word or something like that. My "title" has remained but all my response I typed is gone....?

This has been going on for some time but I have been so busy I had not the time to send you this problem. (That is why I have been "absent" from the boards)