I've just had the opportunity to play around vB and must say it is a lot better than what i used to use (UBB). I have been trying to change the icons on the top where it says profile, register, etc. to make them simple text links. How can this be done? I've comb through the preferences and can't find an option to just make them text links. Is there a different way to do it?

Edit the 'fivelinks' template.

On a side note...is there a relatively painless way to move each user's post icons to the top, ala UBB (the only thing I like about UBB :))? I've tried it a bit but it always comes out looking warped...can anyone tell me exactly which code I need to move, and where to put it?

Any thoughts appreciated, thanks! :)

Just ask nicely for someone's (who has the icons on top) postbits template and you can just paste it in.

In fact I believe someone has already posted it if you search on "postbit"

TWT:

Try replacing your postbit template with this:

<table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=4>
<tr bgcolor="$backcolor">
<td width="175" valign="middle" height="16" nowrap>

$foldericon <FONT SIZE="1" FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica">$postdate $posttime</font>
</td><td width="100%" valign="middle" height="16">

<table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td align="left valign="middle">

$profile $useremail $homepage <a href="search.php?action=simplesearch&exactname=yes &searchuser=$searchuser"><img src="images/find.gif" border=0 alt="Find more posts by $username"></a> <a HREF="editpost.php?action=editpost&postid=$postid" ><IMG SRC="images/edit.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Edit/Delete Message"></A> <A HREF="newreply.php?action=newreply&postid=$postid" ><IMG SRC="images/quote.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Reply w/Quote"></A>
</td><td align="right" valign="middle" nowrap>
<FONT SIZE="1" FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica">$iplogged</font>

</td></tr></table>

</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="$backcolor">
<TD width="175" valign="top" nowrap>

<table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td width="100%">
<a name="post$postid"></a>
$firstnewname
<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica"><B>$username</B></font><br>
<FONT SIZE="1" FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica">$usertitle</font><br>
<FONT SIZE="1" FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica">[$userpostcount Posts]</font><br><br>
<FONT SIZE="1" FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica">Member Since:<BR> $userjoindate<br>

</td></tr></table>

</td><td valign="top" width="100%">

<table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td width="100%">

$posticon <FONT SIZE="1" FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica"><B>$postitle</b></font>
<p><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">$message</font></p>
</td></tr>
</table>

</td></tr></table>

Back up or original postbit first and then paste this in place.

Parker