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Hmm, if you get on IRC right now and/or email me with enough details to see your access log (and give me admin access on your forum), I should be able to check out and see how he did it.

That's actually not true, if you set $_GET properly it can. However, yes, we have planned to add some more useful internal syndication features (at least as an official extension, if not as part of the core).

Good point: fixed

No, it means that 1.3 comes with systems for working with alternative URL schemes built in. If you want to modify PunBB to add rewriting of certain links, you can, that's all done via Apache/mod_rewrite. However, you'll find that you'll also need to change all of the links in PunBB if you want to stay consistent. And that is easier said than done.

Hmm, not a bad idea

Nice

You don't seem to understand two fundamental things:
1. How cookies actually work.
2. That the system proposed here would authenticate the user IN THE EXACT SAME WAY that the rest of PunBB does.

Now then, how cookies work. Your browser sends a request to log in to PunBB, PunBB sends a reply. That reply contains a line telling the browser to create a cookie on the computer with certain data in it. On each subsequent pageview, that cookie is used to authenticate the user: if it weren't, the user would have to enter his/her username/password for every pageview. When the user logs out, the cookie is removed from the browser. If the user has not enabled permanent logins, the cookie is removed from the browser when the browser is closed as well. If the user has enabled permanent logins, the cookie stays in the browser for a period of one year. No new logins required.

"Hello, if I do this upgrade will I lose my colour scheme etc? Im running 1.2.14"
No, styles are separate

"Also how bad are the security holes in the version I have? Do I really need to do this upgrade?"
Bad. Yes.

"These updates seem very messy for novice like me & not explained very well."http://punbb.org/docs/install.html
http://punbb.org/docs/install.html
Replace the references to 1.2.16 on that page to 1.2.17 and everything should be clear to you.

And what you quoted up there seems to be the PHP code for the update script.

Hmm, then that's not the issue.

Yup, that is yet to be done.

PunBB is released under the GPL, yes.