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yeah but the creator of 4images isn't the person who released the hack here. grumble grumble. If I had time in the day to teach myself php I'd figure out the problems myself. As it is I'm going to probably go to a php pro and get this fixed once and for all.

4Images is ALMOST working for me. I want the netPBM; the version of php installed on my host is pretty old and I hear bad things about older GD quality. I don't want to install imagemagik -- I've got netPBM already! However, coppermine doesn't work with netPBM. Menalto gallery does but I hate the popup windows.

And I've spent a good 30 hours working on 4images.

Anyway, what isn't working:

1. Login is erratic. On Firefox win/mac I log right in and it recognizes I'm logged in. Safari I log in, it sees me online, but keeps the login/pw box up. I haven't tested on IE for mac because it sucks more booty than a retired porn star.

2. Once logged in, getting into the admin cp is erratic. Sometimes I go right in. Sometimes it logs me into the forum and I have to go back. Sometimes it appears to login then refreshes the screen with the login/pw.

3. Cookies get hosed when other users look at either the forum or the gallery (i'm not sure about the rest of the site). If I'm working on a template, and I try to save, and someone else has visited I suddenly have to relog in and have lost my changes.

4. Thumbnail creation is buggy. I have two domains with the same host; both have/had 4images. One works fine with netPBM. One doesn't at all. Same install, from the same binaries, installed into the same place on the server. Only difference is one is working with a vbulletin forum, and one was just totally independant.

So that's that. I get all these problems with a fresh install, or with my skinned install. don't matter. It's driving me nucking futs; especially that my posts are just being ignored.