Hmm,
Perhaps it's because of the - subroutine I put in. Allen, can you remove the $elapsed =~ s/(-)//g; routine from some templates and see if the seconds show some value (or in ubb_forum.cgi)? I probably think that's what is casuing the problems.
$ta and $tb are global variables which I've set up near the top of ultiamtebb.cgi.
qasic