Using the pals this way will bypass keeping private information from being seen by those that do not have access to it. Also, I believe that the "online" section may not know to keep invisible users from being seen by all. There is also a possibility of cross contanimating the .threads variables. A long time back I used to have a script called leftcolumnpal.php which created a left hand column using the pals. I ran into problems with it because it would contanimate the .threads variables that were in use but I worked on it and got it all running smoothly. From that point I believe I have kept the variables seperated but I have never checked since because that script is no longer in the package so it could be a problem.
Please keep these things in mind and let me know how it goes.
