1. Never, ever, ever, edit your UBB files from within a web editing program; it will add its own formatting on what it THINKS needs to be added (frontpage for example will add a bunch of meta lines); these will break things. If editing your UBB files please only use notepad or wordpad (or some other text only editor).
2. to edit mysql you use a script capable of editing them; most isp's use PHPMyAdmin; editing the MySQL databases is beyond the scope of the UBB, hence the inability to do it from within the UBB (other than the line query section, but you'd need to know the query to update things and these aren't as simple to people as just pasting them in).
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