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smoothie, nobody encountered those 2 specific problems, let's take a closer look toghether, ok?
most of the time, you get a parse error when you forget a bracket.
the code you add should look like that:

      $postid=$DB_site->insert_id();
      if ($foruminfo['forumid']==$articleforum) {
        $DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET articleid=$postid WHERE threadid=$threadid");
      }

      indexpost($postid,1);

for the permissions, please check your forum perms, there is your problem.
let me know please. pm me also the vbHL test page url so i can look at it also. thank you.

tip: always clean your browser cache, before you download a new file from vBulletin.org. sometimes it holds in the temp files an older file.