Yeah, I'm considering going about it through usergroups, but that would make me write something like a /articlecp and making a somewhat seperate admin panel. It's not that hard to do. Basically just a usergroup check at the TOP of the admin panels.
I have something like this in my printer file.
PHP Code:
$guest = 1;
if (is_member_of(array('userid'=>$bbuserinfo['userid'], 'usergroupid'=>$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], 'membergroupids'=>$bbuserinfo['membergroupids']), $guest)){
echo "Registered members only\n";
}
you'll have to reverse it in this case though cause you only want certain groups to see the pages