yes, nic is working wonders here, and it will be a good selling point if this php software can do what PHP-Nuke does (mark thread read after the user clicks out of it). of course, PHP-Nuke may not work in other areas I'd like to see, e.g. ignore user, ignore thread, et al. but I appreciate many of the features here, like show/hide sigfile and avatar. I dunno if PHP-Nuke allows that.