If you mean user permissions i tried accessing the page on my admin account and then on a test account.

Neither worked.

When I typed in domain.com/forum/journal.php I get this error

"username, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
"

Did you goto: Control Panel > Usergroups > Usergroup Manager
Then pick Administrator (to start) and edit the permissions. Scroll to the very bottom of the page and you should see the permissions for the journal. They all default to No.

See attached. I checked the templates and it's supposed to say about not having less than 10 characters in an entry. Talking of blank stuff I'm able to leave blank comments. I don't know if that's by design or what?

that explains it.
Thanks :)
fixed

Anyway to make the link to thier Jounral appear under their post count?

Yes - move it there :)

Any idea when's the next version's comming out? Will the next version be fully phrased?

I'm getting that too ...

Anyone know what needs to be edited to fix this?

Where can I find the option to display Journal links in member list? It doesnt show for me. :(

Not yet implemented, as pre-final Version of vBulletin 3.5 didn't have the necessary Hook :)