also, is the ioncubeloader NEEDED for this to work correctly?

Mary - so I assume that this means that you do not want any help fixing the numerous bugs. Too bad - that is the beauty of vb.org, IMO - coders helping coders.

I was wondering the same thing... why is ioncubecheck.php included in the file? encoded scripts are not allowed on vb.org

No. It's unprotected.

its unprotected? what does that mean??

Just delete it. And this is a proof that it's 100% the commercial version which had a file (functions.php) encoded. I remembered to delete key directory but I forgot to delete ioncubecheck.php
From the other side, it's so easy to check the files to see if they're encoded or not. And I know the rules of vb.org

mary - in your first post on the mod, your postings for the link in the navbar says myocialspaceindex, need to fix that typo to mysocial...

Its her program she can set whatever rules she wants, she doesnt owe anyone anything.

Anyway, I tried creating a club and got the same message. Im guessing this is something wrong at my end now since other people dont seem to be having this problem.

Maybe selfish, but I believe that I can fix the bugs. But just for history, the only bugs that found since the first release were some incompatibilities. You can check it in my site's forum.

mary inside the admincp it is asking for a license key in the myss options area. should we ignore this?