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Thanks for the idea of using wordwrap. It sort of worked by keeping the long URL's from breaking the design, but it didn't fix them not getting converted into a usable link. In my text format function, I have it convert the vbulleting [URL] tag into an html link. I think that the way my cropsentence function (seen in my first post) is working is preventing this conversion from working correctly.

Here's what I use to convert the [URL] into a link:

PHP Code:

$pagetext = ereg_replace(
    "\[URL]([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~]+)\[/URL]",
    "<a href=\"\\1\">\\1</a>", $pagetext); 


Any ideas? You can see what's broken at http://www.numbmonkey.com