Sorry, what? Autorefresh only occurs on the full alerts listing page. I have no idea what the second part of your sentence is supposed to mean unfortunately.
i said default on install its zero, my question its what is best setup for it in seconds
It really depends. 30 isn't too bad. Not many people will be on that page too often anyway.
Seem to be having a bit of a layout issue:
Any suggestions?
I think it is related to the position of the pop-up, same thing happened to me in my custom theme but can't recall correctly what the issue and solution was.
The issues is related to a max_height and overflow:hidden on the container. I can not compensate for 100% of themes with off CSS styles.
You are using a modified version of the apart theme? That is, you modified the original theme - looking at your board you did. As Euan says, he cannot allow for every Css variant out there.
Try using that code on #panel .upper.