Ok I have noted all that thank you.

I guess I am missing something again because I did enable my FP to php to be able to open and view a preview.

Also if you got to the top of this page and click on file, you should see 'Edit with FP' If I do that, it opens this forum in FP for me and I can see everything, I can preview and also click on the HTML to see all the codes, I couldn't do this before I enabled FP to view php but now I can.

Can I not edit like that and use it?

The other thought I had was to do just that but rather than load them back to the server with the main forum script I could load it up to the server as a normal HTML seperate web page just like I upload any website, I could then have my links from the forum going to those pages, ok they wont be in sync with the forums but I can at least use the same design.

Would that work?