i can take a look into it, however i feel it would be a hole nother hack more than anything else >.< and im sure it would be rather large of a hack @ that

If I'm reading that 3rd screen right, then you can add a variable to the user, but you can set it so that the member won't know it's there, it won't show up on their profile, and there's no option for them to edit it anywhere in their cp?

no thats what the edit to usercp_shell does ;)

I would like to add fields like you are doing here but when they show up, allow the USER to decide if the fields are publicly viewable or not....this is for an alumni site and they may not want to share certain info....anyone done anything like this?

This one feels food.
Agree with "schuelerd's" post.

well you can add an extra profile feild to allow them to share or not share info, and you can have it set not to be searchable and not to show on their profile page.

BIG PROBLEM

If you update the options page for vb3 all your options for the second options page are reset to defualt. Any ideas on how to fix this?

i never personally exprirend this problem, but i will look into it

Does This Work Fine On VB3 RC3?

i dont see why it wouldnt :) it is working on RC2 and i dont think there was too much more, its sorta stand alone. as in it shoudl always work :D