The newest thread was completely unrelated to the old thread, and was nothing more than random photos - the old thread was a set of photos all of which but two shared a common naming convention and theme (as the post said, and as I hope I made clear in my previous post in this thread).
The merger of the two was senseless, as they were posted close to a month apart (three days shy), and were not related in any way except that they contain photography - which would be like merging all drawings posted by any one poster together with the others.

I see no reason to merge the two together.
I generally like to keep an eye on things involving my photography - for instance, when I post links to them on various message boards I like to keep an eye on how many people view the threads so I can gauge interest in my work and what have you. It's just something I do. With the threads merged together, this is next to impossible.