Okay, I don't want to tie up the board with all this but wanted to acknowledge Jeffs post here. I did write to him privately that it is
I who should have known the rules and I who should have figured out if my membership was still good. He WILL NOT /BETTER NOT send it back to me on him. He was trying to help and it all was just a mistake on my part. I was just so thrilled that he was willing to do that for me that i didn't think of all these other things first before shipping it out.
So for the umpteenth time
Thank you Jeff