>>It is not CSS-compliant<<
So far it's going pretty well modifying only within the style manager. Basically I'm chopping out all the html table code and replacing it with custom css code & using that phpinclude_start + the footer to reinclude the absolute elements.
What I expect is going to be somewhat more difficult to include the code chunks outside the VB forum directory.
As an aside, what is VB policy on using the same forum on multiple sites. I know that you cannot do multiple installs but also that parking is ok. What about a situation where you sites hosted on the same server make mysql calls to pull parts of the same forum. For instance, say the main forum is about "Trees who don't code". :P Could I query and include and maniupluate only a section of that main forum on say noncoding-walnut-trees.com?