ok, so i'm happy now....
i have added in a "mambo it" function to my threads, where admins/mods/and users who originally posted a message can choose to publish said content to the CMS.
it works pretty much like choosing who gets access to the 'edit' button in showflat/threaded.
user's get a new icon in their "post extras" row, the mambo-it icon as i like to call it. they click on that and then choose which portion of the CMS they would like to publish to
cms script grabs post number/unumber and does the rest, grabs the content from _Posts, and notifies the admin that a new submission has been made.
way cool. like i said, my code is very customized at this point to my site (table names, cms field types as well) that i can't really relase it.
i'll work to clean it up and then post.
