[nerbert]

Sounds like we're beating a dead horse here. vB 5 has problems and it's hard/impossible to make mods for it.

I'm upgrading to vB 4.2.3 as soon as my other admin can get away from his busy schedule and I'll see if the new version has all the same problems as 4.2.2. I've already collected documentation on the edits I've made. I just plan on using vB 4 indefinitely. Between my understandong of how vB works, my other admin's superior coding skills and the expertise here on vB.org we ought to be able to keep up with any changes in PHP that come down the road even if IB/vBulletin isn't interested.

We need to pool all the fixes and edits needed and gather them into a single concise file and keep updating it as needed to keep up with new versions of PHP.

What we need to do is form the vBulletin Underground to take matters into our own hands and keep vB 4 running forever.

I'm not going to bother with bug reports any more. I spent a good deal of time tracing one down and it was scrubbed. Hell, maybe I was hallucinating .....