sorry for my lack of reply but i did make it clear that i was unable to support this hack but i try my best to help with the parts we made but almost all the errors reported here are to do with the bot files.

How do i make it not quote the previous message?

Also...the Bot just randomly stops talking. After answering 4 or 5 of your questions it just won't say anything else unless you start a new thread.

Hi Everyone,
Ok so I am slow...
I tried to do the install I edited everything and CHMOD 777 all the directorys.
When I run the //www.XXXXXXX.Com/forums/alice/src/admin/botloader.php
I get this:

Loading startup.xml

Warning: Unable to access XXXXXXXXXXX.com/forum/alice/aiml/startup.xml in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/forum/alice/src/admin/botloaderfuncs.php on line 508

Warning: fopen("XXXXXXXXX.com/forum/alice/aiml/startup.xml", "r") - No such file or directory in /home/XXXXXXXX/public_html/forum/alice/src/admin/botloaderfuncs.php on line 508
could not open XML input

CHMOD 777 all the files in /src/admin/ as well...not just the directories...but the files as well.

I did the CHMOS 777 on everything and it still did not work.
I also read this 55 page thread and got nowhere.
It seems that when most people had a problem, they would post what the problem was.
Lated they would just post that they fixed it with out telling what they did to correct it.
(not a complaint just an observation)

This is the error I get now:

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Warning: Access denied for user: 'MyUserName@000.00.0.00' (Using password: YES) in /home/Mysite/public_html/forum/alice/src/admin/dbprefs.php on line 52

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user: 'MyUserName@000.00.0.00' (Using password: YES) in /home/ Mysite /public_html/forum/alice/src/admin/dbprefs.php on line 52
Loading startup.xml

Warning: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/ Mysite /public_html/forum/alice/src/admin/botloaderfuncs.php on line 531

Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/ Mysite /public_html/forum/alice/src/admin/botloaderfuncs.php on line 532

Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/ Mysite /public_html/forum/alice/src/admin/botloaderfuncs.php on line 540
DONE LOADING
Inserted 0 categories into database

WARNING! You should password protect the admin directory or remove the botloader.php script or people may be able to abuse your server.
Click here to talk to the bot

execution time: 0.122679
Templates per second=0
Templates per minute=0
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If someone would help me get this going I will make a detailed how-to-install for this hack.
C.Birch did a good Tombot-install but it leaves alot of information out.

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Here is an example:
$DB_HOST="localhost"; <---- Is this the Server name (216.00.000) ?
$DB_UNAME="username"; <---- Is this TomBot's name or the Admin name to get in
$DB_PWORD="password"; <---- Is this Admin Password or Tombot's?
$DB_DB="datebasename";
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Those are you MySQL database info fields.
So host is the mysql server address, uname is the database username, password is self-explanatory and databasename is the database where the bot withdraws it's words, for me I used "bot".

Basically everything else is the same as for vbulletin except the database name, but I think you can install the bot under vbulletin database too.

Did you create a new database and name it bot?

Quest...I don't know that C. Birch left alot of info out...I think you just aren't understanding them correctly. You don't create any new databases...you run the .SQL file in your current database and it creates all the new tables that are required...then you make the file mod's that you are told to do. And as far as the database fields:

$DB_HOST="localhost"; <---- leave this like it is...99% of the time it's fine
$DB_UNAME="username"; <---- This is your database username...it has nothing to do with any username of your boards....it was specified when you created the database for your boards
$DB_PWORD="password"; <---- Same as above...
$DB_DB="datebasename"; <---- Name of the database that vB is installed