Highlighting Reported Posts waiting Moderation

[Big-K]

I'm trying to do two things to alert users and moderators to posts awaiting moderation.

1. Auto-highlight reported posts so as to let users know that the post has been reported and awaiting moderators review. This will prevent users from quoting or replying to such post until someone has taken a look. I have been able to achieve this with the following conditional in postbit

<vb:if condition="$post['reportthreadid'] > 0">THIS POST IS REPORTED</vb:if>

2. Auto-remove the highlighted background when there is a reply to the report in the dedicated reported post forum

This second part is the one I cant seem to get my head around. Lynne suggest I need a plugin to find the reported post thread and see how many replies there are to it.

Grateful for ALL ideas