Weird i'm running the same os/version on my desktop.
After thinking some more about the message board, I think your idea is better and mine is ass backwards...Most web portals you see do what you suggested...I guess I picked the wrong one to copy. I'm going to make it so that all news posts are in the message board (actually the news database table will be the base table for the message board), and all new discussion topics are posted to the message board and not the news.
steve
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