It works on my 3.5.3

Yes it is/does.

Great hack, is there a way to have it phrased?

Good question.

I'm not sure why this one never got done when I phrased most of my hacks. I'll pop it on the todo list. :)

Thanks. Also, the postcount ignores the selective forum filter hack but the search result doesn't. Not really that big of a problem but might confuse some of my users.

Well that's nothing I can do about the later problem, it's not possible to take into account the effects of other hacks.

Ok, thanks anyway. Also, I edited the plugin to input the absolut path to the search.php to make it work with the vbadvanced portal as well, is there a better way to do this or it's the only way?

I don't know as I don't have VBA, but it won't break anything doing that.

Ok, thanks for all your help. And many thanks for that future phrased version :).

Doesn't work with vBDrupal
any suggestion?