[Erwin]

Originally Posted by hpwilhelm

The users postcount and the forums total postcount does not increase.

The forumsdisplay shows as when a "normal" post is made: last poster, date and postcount increase.

But the most important question for me right now is how I can format the new thread, with fonts, headers and paragraphs, not just plain text. How does vbulletin handle postformating? Now it just outputs the code as entered into both form and template... :ermm: Any ideas?

Yeah, you're right the user post count does not increase because this is not a post. I never added the query to add to the user's post count.