Timeline problem

There is a minor irritation with sort timelines which still exists in Storyline 2 which would be great if it could be rectified next update.  The problem occurs if one has a very short timeline - for example I recently needed a stopwatch to appear, it used a timeline of 1 second duration so whenever it got to the end it popped back to the start and added a second to the display.  When I wanted to paste in an extra graphic to the stopwatch image the timeline immediately reverted to 20 odd seconds.  Of course as one has not intentionally changed the timeline one could well not notice that this has happened.

Incidentally I can no longer search for anything on this Forum, whatever I look for it says it cannot find even if I know it exists.  Am I doing something stupid or has the Forum itself got a problem?