In case anyone is wondering, this hack works in 5.44b! I run a Marine website so I changed the gifs to Rank Insignias. Here is the description I gave to my members about the images:
http://www.thefew.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000001.htm Images I made:

= 1

= 5

= 10

= 50

= 100

= 500

= 1000
I'm kinda wondering if I should divide by 5 or even 3 instead of 10 because I doubt my users will get to 10,000 posts! There aren't many posts on my board yet. I have moved from WebBBS v4.02 (script kept crashing due to Perl5 not being installed correctly) to community.everyone.net to network54.com trying to find a good Forum script. All the while my users keep following...and getting upset...so UBB is DEFINETELY it! I've added a few hacks so far and I'm diving for more
... catch ya later!

AJ