Thing is, this hack doesn't exist even for UBB. I thought I could try to make it in PERL, but I gave up

I realized that it would be a lot wiser to use PHP for this hack, and that's what lead me to VBB in the first palce
I was inspired by
Skinz.org who have a beautifully built engine for rendering their pages (all in PHP of course). I thought it would be great to get the same kind of display system for the forums, in this case VBB. Implementing this to UBB was a lost case. Too much hassle...
But if there's an inspired PHP coder out there who could pull this off, I'd be happy to give him/her a lollipop

This feature would be great for graphic sites and others who would want to display pictures.