[Brad]

Just a little note, if you are going to be writing scripts that are a bit more advanced. Sometimes you will need to retrive information from vBulletin datastore templates, to do so add this above the call to global.php

PHP Code:

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array(
    'smiliecache',
    'bbcodecache'
); 


That will pull the smilie and bbcodecache which would be needed if you where say, pulling post information from the database (think news scripts). If you need to pull something from the datastore look in the vBulletin file that emulates what you would like to do and find out what it is pulling from the datastore.