In the upper right click "Inbox" which will bring up your private threads At the bottom of the list in the center click "Display Options" Then Show only private threads: and in the drop down box select "Started by" Immediately to the right of that type in your username To the far right click "Set Options" Now you will only see a list of private messages that you sent/started
what about the old format, more intuitive, sent messages, and inbox, thats it, what is the new crazy format? go back to the old format, which all other forums are using anway???!!