I currently use 3rd party software to facilitate a reviews section of my Website for percussion products as well as a classifieds section. The software is built to mesh with many bulletin board software, this one included, but sometimes it can be a pain when it comes to upgrades and making everything flow from a navigation standpoint as well as design and coding functionality.

Any built-in options for either of these features within UBB in the future would be the bees knees.

I agree.

i did a mod for fishingminnesota.com to integrate abscripts.com (classifieds) user DB.. 1 login to both.. shared profiles etc..

and i'd agree that when the API comes out with v8, these types of integrations will be much easier..

I may be interested in that mod.. I need to check out those classifieds some first

While not a classified script Price Tapestry is a pretty awesome affiliate system right out of the box. I haven't gotten around to doing the integration and we don't have it running in production, but for anyone interested in monetizing their site I highly recommend it.