Stu @ M Developments,
It was never my intention to give you greif beyond what you have given me today
but I suspect you wont believe this.
Its easy to search an SQL (or any other) data base when you know the user name
ident tags other wise data bases would be useless. This is the point of them.
I do have ASP, PHP, PHPBB, JAVA, C and MySQL and other data base experience myself.
I mean, for example you can easily search for posts by user and or key word from the top menu on any page....