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I think caching causes problems for this template update function aswell. I think the best solution will be if I remove it for the threadcounts and you will have to make a code edit to use them. It's only a one liner anyway.

I still can't reproduce your posting date problem. It's actually only 1 little line in the script that decides the date. When the script starts up, it reads all the config from the tables and then when it gets to the load forums bit it checks to see whether it should replace the nntp date with the local date. So the default is actually NNTP date. I'll keep trying to reproduce it though.