Works great, thanks!
NuclioN, the marquee.php file included in the download isn't accurate. Use Spikeman's replacement for it -
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=38 - did the trick for me. Having said that, I took the marquee out entirely because I didn't like it, heh.
A question about the buddy list - does this pull user buddy lists from VB itself? Only I don't see any buddies in the offline OR online sections. It's not a big deal, just wondering. When I clicked on the "Contacts" link in the sidebar, nothing actually happened, so I'm wondering if the messenger uses its own buddy system that I should be seeing when I hit that button.
Otherwise, top effort. Easy to change the styles, easy to add and edit the emoticons.
Ooh, actually, I've got a question about the emoticon parser, too. If I add an emoticon with the code

) the parser just parses it as though it's a

instead of a

). I assume it's doing that because it reads the

and parses it right away, ignoring the character that comes after. Is there any way to get the parser to take following characters into account?