[amykhar]

Nicely done. Hopefully, I won't confuse anybody with what I'm about to share, because his hack works perfectly as described. But, I wanted a wee bit more. I wanted to be able to quote a post in a private message to ANY member, not just the author of the post.

To do this, I had to move his code snippet as follows:
In his directions, he said:

Open file private.php and find the first occurence of:

				if (empty($recipients))
				{
					$pm['recipients'] = '';
				}
				else
				{
					$pm['recipients'] = implode('; ', $recipients);
				}
				
Below that, add:

To do the more generic version, that should be:

Find:
// insert username(s) of specified recipients
			if ($_REQUEST['userid'])

Above that add:

(Use his code.)

Then, in the postbit or postbit legacy templates, in addition to the edit he suggested,
Find:

<if condition="$show['reportlink']"><a href="report.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]"> <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/report.gif" alt="$vbphrase[report_bad_post]" border="0" /> </a> &nbsp;</if>

Add After:

<if condition="$show['pmlink']">
<a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newpm&amp;postid=$post[postid]&amp;userid="> <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/pmquote.gif" alt="Quote post in private message" border="0" /></a>	</if>

I'm attaching the image that I used, which I put in the misc images directory