Issue viewing earlier messages on iPhone 4S?

have had my 4S approx 1 month and am having a problem loading earlier messages on some msg threads. Sometimes I have a 'Load earlier messages' button at the top and other times I don't (but I know there are earlier msgs) - does anyone know why this is?

I've only done this less than a handful of times and I've never had a password error.
1. is there a way to set it up to bypass this so it automatically goes to the file/pic/whatever?
No, but if you are in the U.S., ask the sender of an MMS to address the MMS to an email address for an email account that you access with the iPhone's mail client. The sender will enter this email address in the To: field for the MMS instead of your cell phone number with area code. The MMS will be receive by you as an email with the photo as an email attachment. This will also give you the sender's cell phone MMS email address. Add this email address to the contact's info in your iPhone's address book. When selecting a photo to be emailed, if you address the email to this email address, it will be received by the recipient as an MMS on their cell phone.
2. how come I always get password errors when trying to view these on Safari on my phone?
Not sure, but if you are certain you have entered the user name and password correctly, try clearing the Safari cache, cookies, and history on your iPhone. With Safari available, press and hold the home button for 5 seconds or so until your iPhone returns to the home screen - this quits the application.
Go to Settings > Safari.
Select Clear History, Clear Cookies, and Clear Cache.
Next do an iPhone reset, which is done by pressing and holding the home button and the sleep/wake or on/off button simultaneously until you see the Apple logo and then release - ignoring the slide to turn off prompt when doing so.
Test if this resolves the problem.

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