Don't worry, you will come to realize it is much more convenient for keeping up on a thread.
Just hit the Printer Friendly button, which will display them all in the classic forum order (albiet without most of the graphics).
Also, there are actually a lot of common forum scripts that are capable of displaying Posts in either order. phpBB comes to mind.
[ December 26, 2003, 03:41: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]