[The Geek]

In a nutshell it would just be much easier if vb had a table for base user data and then a seperate table for items like postcounts, activity and such. I wouldnt be so much difficult to do - just a pain in the butt to impliment as it means re-routing all existing queries accordingly.

On a side note, you could in theory just push user row changes to other forums. I havent looked close enough to see if there is a hook around the creation/saving of a user profile. But If there is, you could simply place a script in there that would push the releavant data to another database - in essence replicating it (seems the sanest way of doing it).

Hell, in fact... it seems very logical and not overly difficult to do.