[rlamego]

NG, Safari displays the page fine. Eva must have seen a work-in-progress page.

As for the rest, I believe you are entering the "reinvent the wheel" realm again =)
If you make it too much complicated to create a custom text "next page" link, then most people won't probably use it and worse than that, is more prone to problems.
Can you imagine this?
[BREAK][FORWARD="Yup, a link with more "quotes""][/BREAK]
I can =)

Let's return to basics again. What about a nice plain $nextpage var?
We could still use the vB pagination thingy and provide the writer a simple way of making a eye-catching link to the next page, using just a simple link.

Then, you could work some magic for version 2.0 =)