[amykhar]

Look at the top of just about every vbulletin script. You'll see something like this:

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array(
	'userstats',
	'birthdaycache',
	'maxloggedin',
	'iconcache',
	'eventcache',
	'mailqueue'
);

That pulls the datastore items into the code you are going to use. All you have to do after that is refer to them.