Depending on how a web provider configures PHP, multiple warning messages may show up in a user's display involving htmlspecialchars(). It appears that the original coder of /includes/posting.inc.php issued some calls in the wrong order in lines 411 through 413. When the order was modified slightly, the warning messages were quelled and the code seemed to operate properly. Here's an ed style patch:

#patch posting.inc.php
411,413c
       if(isset($cookie_parts[1])) $smarty->assign('email',htmlspecialchars(urldecode($cookie_parts[1])));
       if(isset($cookie_parts[2])) $smarty->assign('hp',htmlspecialchars(urldecode($cookie_parts[2])));
       if(isset($cookie_parts[3])) $smarty->assign('location',htmlspecialchars(urldecode($cookie_parts[3])));
.

I tried to contact the developers by means of the "contact" link on this board, but have received no response so far. The corrected posting.inc.php file has been made available on the net, and the developers have been told how to reach it if they're interested.

Thanks for My Little Forum, and thanks for considering this suggestion.