welcome

I am a newbie and I uploaded all files to my host and could not get the plug in to install....what am I missing?

you uploaded the wrong version use the one in my sig for the updated one

That did it. Is there a reason it hasn't replaced the 7.82.zip underneath the download now?

the author has no been around so the members have applied the updated to keep the mod alive

I think what he's asking is why isn't there a procedure in place to take over a mod when the author disappears? I have no good answer for that. Even copyrights expire at some point. But release a mod on vb.org and drop dead and nobody is ever allowed to do anything with it. Thus we have mods like this with 42 pages of people asking the same question over and over again.

At the very least we should be able to get a moderator to alter the text in the first post, if only to remove the link to the non-working version.

PS A note to all mod authors: Please always mark your code as "reusable" so this doesn't happen to us with your mods.

^^^ An excellent post and an excellent suggestion!

There are 139 pages that I would and could not start to read. Can someone help this hack out and put the newest version up for people to use.

You're not paying attention. It is strictly forbidden here to modify and distribute another person's mod unless they gave prior permission. So far we've gotten away with this one because the newer versions are fairly well hidden. But eventually someone in power will get wind of what's going on and clamp down.

At least in this case there's another mod that does pretty much the same thing, so all is not lost.

use the one in my sig