I am not sure what the warning hack is or how it works.

ok, let me rephrase that. Does the system still know who the real usename and userid is?

I am stucked at step 4. The default permission in a forum allowed for an allowed usergroup shows no. Here are my last bitfields line.

'canbet' => 4194304,
// --- vBookie
'canpostanon' => 8388608,

and

'warnall' => 131072,
'allowanon' => 262144

I also tried without the comma at the end of 8388608

Yes, it does. It's stored in the postanon and anonname field of the post.

Thanks. I have been installing since there was a global on/off switch... but I am stucked ...

My bad. That's an error in the install file, which I shall now correct. Change canpostanon to candoanon.

is there more than one instance to change it?
'candoanon' => 8388608

is not doing it.

never mind... I had unselected the usergroup when I encountered the problem

I finished writing this thing in the wee hours of the morning. Hopefully, there won't be any more brain farts in the install instructions.

I am stucked at step 5. I am logged in as admin with anon permissions, trying to post in an allowed forum, did the new template part (step o) , added $postanonoption in newthread template, yet when testing, I cannot see the option.

Actually, the whole block in newthread about disablesmilies, vbookie, post poll disappeared?????