"Your CC box has the 82.x.x.x IP address, this address is the one that the Cableforum server should be seeing as your IP address, but it is NOT. It's being seen as a proxy server??"
I suspect much of this information is discovered by querying my browser rather than the connection itself - take a look over at
http://gemal.dk/browserspy/ to get an idea of what information can be had from you regardless of most precautions.