I had to add the 'forumhome' to the $bad_t array, and everything looks cool.
It works great so thank you for your work.

Yep. That fixed it. Now, going to add the plugin acelerator, then recompress. Going to see what the difference is.

still no luck in getting my shoutbox to show after compressing. I think its a great hack, but my community is spoiled.

Did you add forumhome to the bad array list?

ive added 'forumhome' to the bad array list; however, when compressing I still see forumhome_vbshout being compressed even though it is already in the ignore list and my shoutbox fails to show up once i run this hack.

Make sure you are using the absolutely last release from the zip File.
You can change the "ignore templates" config file from the vbulletin settings now.

Just go there and add forumhome to the list (with a space as directed).

Ps. Sorry everyone, I forgot to upload the new zip file that adds support for making bad template modifications from the control panel settings editor.

To Upgrade:

Uninstall product, Reinstall product using new Product xml file. Replace old php code with the newer php code listed in install.txt and use the hack as usual.

maybe this will help. i had to add 'navbar' to the ignore list to get the shoutbox to appear.

Indeed it will, will update first post.

This mod also messes up https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101368

I don't even know what templates i would have to ignore to get that working when templates are compressed.