[websissy]

Okay, I've investigated this topic a WHOLE lot further. I learned from the vB3 experts over at vBulletin.com that my problem is caused by the way vB3 handles password encryption... it uses a salted double-encrypted MD5 password encryption technique rather than the simpler MD5 encryption used in vB2.

That's the reason ImageFolio's little mySQL.pl Perl module is failing to verify the password. I tried diligently for a couple of hours to figure out how to change the provided Perl program to get it to do the same password encryption that vB3 uses; but I'm forced to admit I just don't know enough about Perl to be able to accomplish the required Perl program changes.

Implementing this program requires absolutely NO changes to vB3 at all. All that's needed is a relatively minor patch to ImageFolio's 150 line Perl module to get it to correctly encrypt and verify the vB3.0 user password. When that's up and working, I'll be able to validate my ImageFolio users against the vBulletin member database and the world will be at peace again.

Is anyone here willing to tackle this change for me? I'm willing to listen to almost any reasonable proposals...

Thanks!