[Erwin]

Yesterday at 04:49 AM Talisman said this in Post #137
But in the third question, we ask them to enter their Player Name (for the event they're registering for). In most cases, the Player Name and their Username are identical. And any time the $answer3 text field matches $bbuserinfo[ username], the silly thing shows up totally blank.

How do I get around this?

That's weird... if you'ven put the variables in the right place there should be no blanks. Did you do this:

$answer3="$bbuserinfo[username]";

??

Anyway, when the form posts as a reply to an existing thread, how do I get this to increment the thread's count and mark the post as "new?"

This should be done automatically. The thread count should go up, and the post marked new automatically.