Sal - You make a good point on upgrading software. It's the same all over. If you want the latest and greatest functions, you usually have to upgrade something. Some of the bigger UBB's I've seen are still running 5.3x / 5.4x versions. I suspect they go over each rev with a fine tooth comb and they pull out the snippets of code they want to
integrate.
This subject is why I started getting into the WAI W3C stuff. They lay out the ground rules & specs for guys like MS and Netscape to follow. You should check out the organizations that are involved with those gruops, they sure aren't your average Jo **** the web hack, they are Org's like (SIIA), Oracle, NBC, NATO, MIT, MS, NS, and on and one.
The answers are available, it will just take some doing, by allot of folks, to chage the current mode of operation.
GB