Tommy, your hacks are little "gems"...
This hack is working on my 2.2.9 forum. It works with other browsers. It only has the glitch of the anchor problem, but as someone else said, it's IE's fault, the anchor gets parsed correctly on other browsers.
This hack also solved a little problem my users and I noticed: after the submission of a new post/reply, when the forum redirected to the thread, the browser "reloaded" the entire page, graphics were pulled from the cache, but anyway it was a little slow. I never caught the problem.
Anyway I just installed this and I noticed a big improvement in response time, some users already tried it and they are very happy about it.
Keep up the excellent work Tommy...