The one are cookie settings, the one showing up in the postbit are usersettings.
and it's not that easy to read out user's cookies in showthread, when they aren't online
pfft, and you call yourself a hacker. I thought you would have figured something out already, like satellite uplinks to my wifi connection to read the cookies when I am not on or something. =p
featurette: when a registered user select a new style in the footer, why not do the same as in the usercp and write the new setting in the db instead of a cookie... would be more efficient...