[cavyspirit]

Lessons learned the hard way:

Definitely install the ACTIVATE FLASH script on this page: http://www.tufat.com/resources2.htm

It works perfectly with 4.5.7 AND vB integration. This WILL remove the annoying Press Space Bar or Enter to Activate message in IE.

Secondly, on creating your own themes, in config do NOT put your version of:
require_once(INC_DIR . 'themes/mytheme.php');
at the top of the others. Put it at the bottom. Mine and yours is not to wonder why.

Also, if you do like I did and pick a theme to copy and change, be sure this setting is true
'showBackgroundImagesOnLogin' => true,
in the php file of your theme.

Now it's on to try to figure out the whacky world of bots!