amy-- great hack!
i did try just the rewrites.... i'm getting rewritten user #s and not names. i did then add the rewrites (just in case), and then removed them....

i'm not sure what i have done wrong!
thanks for responding!
HTML Code:
'userpage\.php\?do=list' => 'userpage-list.html'
'userpage\.php\?do=main&userid=(\d+)' => 'userpage-user$1.html'
'userpage\.php\?do=main&username=(\w+)' => 'userpage/$1.html'
I am not using the shoutouts (the display/input is commented out of the templates)...
thanks