1) Its not home cooked software. 2) The loss of features were an unwanted side effect of being forced to add our own routines which enforce registration before posting. 3) The version of the software before we modified it was 4.33; Last update June 8, 2000. No idea what the version number the previous board was, but it was circa '97. 4) If you want to bitch/blame at somebody, direct it at me, not Kim.