[eoc_Jason]

Switching to InnoDB is not really a viable option... Can you imagine how many more threads there will be specifically for InnoDB tuning? As if the people whom didn't have a clue about my.cnf before are going to magically make this work... lol.

I spent yesterday installing sphinx (again) on my test server, not sure how it got uninstalled... Anyhow I'm using 0.9.9 (released Dec 2, 09)... I also installed the latest 3.8.x vBulletin....

After looking over the search.php file, it seems there's quite a few hooks available, so I'm going to try and code using those instead of having to edit the search.php file directly. I'm going to code this from scratch rather than try to patchwork more of Orban's code...

My question to you guys, what version of vBulletin are you running? For security reasons you can PM me directly if you don't feel comfortable posting in the thread, or you can just say 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 and skip the minor version. Also if you could tell me how many threads/posts your forum has that would be helpful too.

I'm not 100% sure how I will release this yet (free vs paid)... Once I get closer to a final working product I'll probably ask a couple of you guys to help beta test this for me. I do not plan on even looking at 4.0 for a while... People just have too many negative things to say right now and there are still too many bugs....