Well, it's because I'm modifying my UBB to integrate it with a database of users.
And I manna make sure this was the only place where I had to add code to the script for deleting an entry in the users database..
The user database is a flat text file instead of nmany little files as the UBB... This way I can do search for any word in specified fields.. Like search each users between age x an y, coming from whatever place, etc..
Etienne