ok, got it up and running.. there are some quirks to work out, but the user auth is entirely ubbthreads.
i need to have it automatically grab the Display Name and prevent '/nick' commands
also, i'm gonna make the smileys be a popup instead of displaying them all the time. reason being, my board has a huge number of smileys. what i'll do is take the 1st 16 (as ordered in the ubbt DB cpanel) and display them all the time, but add a [All Smiley] button to show them all..