What was the time between your Private Message "tries"? If you do not wait for at least 5 minutes, the Forum software perceives it as spamming.
Have you logged out of the Forum, closed all browser Windows, then open browser, log into the Forum, then try to send a Private Message?
Have you cleared all of the browser cache?
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