Yes, I agree about the database thing...what would be nice is how to get the user // login information to also go to the forum database and visa versa, this way all a person has to do is register/login once, yet each script maintains it's own database.

There's a way of doing this, I found out, with some of the ecommerce shopping cart sites and coppermine image gallery, but it requires a "bridge" and I don't know how that's done...takes some kind of php coding.