[luck777jojo]

yes we are running vb2, there are several reasons because of which we aren't really thinking of upgrading now.... one of them being that the board has over 60,000 users registered and converting that entire db to vb3 would take a while.... since we don't have another server which we can use to convert the db on while keeping the forums running it is not really an option

the hack installed on the board have also been modified quite a bit to suit our forum needs therefore loosing all of them wouldn't be something I would like very much either.... it will be done as a last resort but as of now we're not that extremely desperate.

I know that there are some people saying that adding the search queries to $templatesused= will cut down a few queries.... would it be safe to do so, are there any drawbacks, etc.

I'll try and get a list of the hacks we have installed specifically the ones affecting the forumdisplay page, and I'll post them here tomorrow or the day after.