[amykhar]

Found it. The else isn't the problem. The code I have in the text file is fine. The problem is that there is a javascript in the newreply, editpost, and newthread templates.

Remove this code from them (or something similar in each. I am only looking at newreply)

	if (postmaxchars != 0) { message = "\nThe maximum permitted length is $postmaxchars characters."; }
	else { message = ""; }
	alert("Your message is "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long."+message);