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Boofo; I just had a go at doing this for vb 3.5 and it worked

add a new plugin in the hook: search_process_start

use this code, very little change in the code.

PHP Code:

if ($exclude)
        {
            $zzzz_notforumchoice = "";
            $zzzz_excludelist = explode(',', $exclude);
            foreach ($zzzz_excludelist AS $zzzz_key => $zzzz_excludeid)
            {
                $zzzz_notforumchoice .= intval($zzzz_excludeid).",";
            }
            $zzzz_notforumchoice = substr($zzzz_notforumchoice,0,-1);
            if ($showposts)
            {
                $post_query_logic[] = "thread.forumid NOT IN ($zzzz_notforumchoice)";
            }
            else
            {
                $thread_query_logic[] = "thread.forumid NOT IN ($zzzz_notforumchoice)";
            }
        } 


then use exclude e.g. search.php?do=process&replyless=1&replylimit=0&day s=7&dontcache=1&searchdate=7&exclude=22,70,71,72

where the numbers are the forums you want to exclude.