[Lynne]

Don't search on the forum, search in the vbulletin files themselves. Look how the recent posts forum block is done (recentposts.php). That's going to have very, very similar code, no? And did you try what I suggested which is to spit out the actual post text? What if you aren't grabbing it correctly with your query and that is the problem? You need to know that your code is getting it. Debugging is all about figuring out exactly where the problem is and the way you do that is by spitting out whatever you are after whenever you can.