All seems to be working 100% now. Great work! :D

No problem, Glad its working correctly for you :D

It seems that the index.php?page=pagename feature no longer works?

I also found that for smilies to work in the vBindex Shoutbox, you have to put their' full URL in the ACP.

For the smilies to work anywhere on the main page correctly if vBindex is outside your forums directory then the full path is needed, just like for the images folder.

How have you named the template in the ACP that you are trying to access via ?page=pagename

I named it home_pagename, like in the last version of vBindex?

Try renaming it home_extra_pagename

I slightly changed it in this version to improve security.

How does that imrpove security? I tried that already anyway [I had a look at your code] - it didn't work. :(

It improves security by not allowing users to look at other templates like home_welcomemessage which are only ment for logged in users.

Just change home_extra_$page to home_$page in the vbindex.php file and it should work the old way again.

I like your security idea, I'll try to make it work!

I shall be looking into that for the final version as well.