John,
I assume you are mostly trying to stabalize the system to make it work better but I don't suppose that in this version or a later one you could make it possible to allow articles to be moved under a new user account? A lot of our articles come from people who aren't on our forum or don't want the article to show under their actual username so I generally post them and then have to move them into a new user account but I don't think vbarticles allowed for that in the past.
Thanks again for the amazing hack, I spent all weekened fine tunning an external script that I wrote in the past and now I see its probably all a waste