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faceface: There's one issue with that, which is that PunBB doesn't do threaded discussions
Plus, I'm not so sure how easy it would be to integrate those systems (I know next to nothing about MediaWiki, so I don't know how easy it is to completely replace the Talk page system )

Make sure to choose SQLite from the dropdown, not MySQL

No, that's not correct. IP based tracking stops once you have a cookie. The order of events goes something like this

- Does the user have a valid cookie
    - Yes
        - Does the user have an entry in the online table already?
            - Yes
                - Update the entry with the current time
            - No
                - Add a new entry for the user id/username
    - No
        - Does the IP have an entry in the online table already?
            - Yes
                - Update the entry with the current time
            - No
                - Add a new entry for the user id/IP

This isn't the first complaint I've heard about this, but I'd need to know more to be able to investigate.
Specifically, I'd need to see what queries these no hits pages are running

Aha, yeah, the joins with bans and reputation are the issue.
Can you give me the code for your viewtopic.php so I can try rewriting it?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/explain.html

There's not much to tell beyond what I already told you: the implementation can and will vary from person to person

Yann: If you're getting a lot of poor results, I'd suggest a couple things
A. http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3884
Add more stopwords to the list to try and eliminate noise.
B. Start the search reindexing in the admin panel

Personally, I find PunBB always returns great results, but as Bekko said the efficency of the searching (and hopefully the relevance) for users of MySQL will be increased greatly in 1.3

Moved to Troubleshooting
What Strofanto said, and calm down, there's no need to be insulting

It really depends on the IP addresses. If they're, for example, IP addresses owned by AOL, you might be banning a lot of potential users. On the other hand, if they're for a small ISP, you probably won't be.
Of course, if he has been posting under many names and many IPs, my guess is that he's using proxies and that you're OK banning them (although he'll probably just use another one to evade the ban).

Yeah, you're including extern.php on the local filesystem while still trying to pass URL parameters. That won't work
You need to include the full URL instead of a relative path