Thanks for the comments guys
I have been checking out the lastest improvements on ubb - this is why I wanted to know if a mysql based option had become available - as I did hope before infopop brought the threads version they would make a mysql option based ubb classic version but it seems I may have to stick to my current db system - as before my host was complaing about cpu resource usages because of the strain the ubb was putting on the server althou every system has there good / bad points - I wanted an option to seperate the db stuff from the classic scripts and see what improvements there maybe ... maybe in the near future