Hey!
Just to let everyone know that I went with the script hosted ther at tom's newbie booster. pretty useful stuff.
Was a lot easier to customize since I did it using SSI and he kinda walked ya through it. Not the most powerful script, didnt have everything i wanted in it, but its got enough to get me going. I might change later on.
Cleo, I would have definately went with the script you suggested however I was afraid to end up having to pay a liscense fee on it, since i'm also using it to generate some income. Plus with my limited knowledge on setting things like that up it really was very daunting
I tried a couple of the scripts at hotscripts, namely Bmachine, but I found it very difficult to customize those and most used mysql.
The newbie booster script makes the most SE friendly pages and archives so I thought it would be best in the end to go with that one, especially since it took me about 10 minutes to set up, (though another hour to customize it the way I wanted it to look) and quite a bit of elbow grease learning how to set that kinda crap up :p