I don't do the same thing at all Amy
I've totally remove the $max variable

and create a small loop which order all $couts[] and $nom[] in an DESCending order, so I've only to show $counts[0] and $nom[0], $counts[1] .... to display the number of total best threads creator I want to
The advantage, is that I can display a top3, top 5, or top 10 whithout having to modify my code
[high]* grog6 loves vb.org, so I can improve my coding and I hope my bad english

[/high]