Holy crap, that worked excellent with the avatars.
Further detail --
In vbindex.php, find:
PHP Code:
$news['avatarurl'] = "$vboptions[bburl]/image".SCRIPT_EXTENSION."?user=$news[postuserid]&dateline=$news[customdateline]";
Replace with:
PHP Code:
$news['avatarurl'] = "$vboptions[bburl]/image".SCRIPT_EXTENSION."?u=$news[postuserid]&dateline=$news[customdateline]";
Worked for me like a charm and now everything is displaying AOK .. or appears to be anyway.
Ty Ceech.
But strangely, I'm still having the noshow of the news threads problem..