I think I've got problems beyond vBexternal... When upgrading my test forum to 3.5.0b1 from 3.0.7, it seemed like some of the updates applied extremely quickly, and i reckon something may have stuffed up... the DB error page isn't recognising my technical email addy, hence not sending the error via email with the query, so i can't seem to find out what specifically is going wrong...
Besides that, the page i'm pulling vBexternal news onto, has many many includes here and there, many of which are pulling data out of vbulletin here and there... on top of that, one of the includes is already calling global.php, which may be my problem?
Either way, i might do a fresh install as my test bed, then go from there. I'll just have to figure it out myself, because i have my own custom shonky coding all over the shop, and it's probably not a vBexternal problem at all, because everyone else seems to have no errors...
Cheers for the help anyways