Yeah, I was afraid that the WWWthreads stuff would get corrupted by the UBB people, and the automatic-smiley conversion sounds like the first step down a big slippery slope into awfulness. You just can't imagine how much I hate the UBB system compared to the WWWThreads system.

We can only hope that this last upgrade fixed the "unread posts" bug. If it doesn't, we'll have to consider asking Paul to NOT upgrade the board unless that bug is specifically fixed in the upgrade, and then not upgrade it again after that.