I solved a part of my problem. Somebody had installed the e360 markup mod. As i deactivated the mod all thread creator names were shown.
e360 uses
PHP Code:
fetch_musername($fetch_userinfo);
to get the marked up name, but on a deleted user this of course returns empty, so there is no data for
PHP Code:
fetch_musername($fetch_userinfo)
So i modified it to use
PHP Code:
if (empty($thread['post_musername'])){
$thread['post_musername'] = "<strike>".$thread['postusername']."</strike>";
}
in the threadbit_display.php hook to get the username from $thread and striking it through.
That solves the first part of my problem.
Now vbulletin just has to stop to link to non-existing profiles and everything is flowers.
Thanks for the help so far.