If your thinking of upgrading from v5 to 6 but was unsure about which hacks to install.

I can say that i upgraded and installed the following hacks (in this order) with virtually no problems, and i know very little about perl.

HitCounter 4.0 BETA 2.2
Wordlet Mod
Last Reply 2.02
News Fader 2.
Star Status 4.53 (moded so incs 15 stati)
Country Flags 1.0
SmilieMod 0.9
DoublePost
Email Reply 2.0
Statistic 6.01
HyperCells 2.0
Icon
Member number
Custom Layout
IP Browser Logging
IP Icon 1.02
Compact Headers 1.3
Active Topics 1.8d
View Pm Info 1.00 beta 1

So a big thanks to the creators of the above listed hacks.

I also modified the code a lot, and now my threads load 1 message at a time which is a load quicker than waiting for a the whole thread to load, this was real simple. And it also now uses css, which cuts down on loads of font tags, which speeds things up a bit.

If any one wants to look its at http://BangingTunes.com/forum/

Kristian