Actually... if I'm not mistaken.... UBB.x is an infopop hosted solution. (Basically a MySQL version of OpenTopic). Since it's hosted by Infopop, I don't think you can hack or modify any of the scripts, as you don't have access to them. Sorry. You might wish to run UBB.Threads on your own server.. much more flexibility.
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