Hi DarthProdigal, to embed a YT video you need to copy the URL from the address bar at the top of your browser window (not the shortcode or share button links) and paste that URL on a separate line within your post/message. You also have to remove the "S" from the https prefix so the URL begins http://
I always appreciate your help, and I knew those steps from looking around at comments, and my own past failures. But making them work properly is still eluding me at the application phase. I tried it, and several variations I thought should work... but I'm somehow messing it up regardless. It wouldn't even let me fix it after I tried a time or 3 hence the "repaired double post" with it still in hyperlink format. I'll have to look into it once more, and try with a future video until I achieve success. I'd wanted it to look cleaner (work on the first shot) but around the time it stopped letting me modify my own post (without posting anywhere else after) I realized that was no longer feasible. You're a wiz/godsend with any wall I seem to run into so I will redouble my efforts with your advice as my new frame of reference. Kicked you up like 7 points for the avatar design, throwing a bonus in for aiding me here as well (tried to add a reference to your work in my sig but was out of space) but technology hates me on occasion and I hate it right back when warranted.
