No no your hack is well coded

I am just helping joo out. Once thing I notice with people is that the less code the more they like it oO;;;;
As for the template if you stay the same, but you could add a admin option to have it turned on your off and then use the deletethread function like this
PHP Code:
deletethread($threadid,$use_recycle_bin,$bin_forumid,$foruminfo[countposts]);
then
$use_recycle_bin = 1 // this means it active 0 means its not
$bin_forumid = XX // whatever forumid you want this to move to
I believe once you edit the admin/functions.php that would be the only edit in postings.php