You can create as many member profile fields as you would like. The best part is that you can set each to be viewable or even editable by the user. Lots of good uses for those.
You would need to do a little hacking I think to have those fields become 'searchable' ... check the forum around here as someone may have released a hack to do that.
If its just forums you need 'protected' ... VB has something called access masks. Meaning that you can set an individual to a usergroup and you can assign privledges for that usergroup.
If you dont have the privledge set, you cant see - let alone access - specific forums.
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