@ Morgan, for your second issue --
Have your user insert their URL within the [ url ] and [ /url ] tags.
They should never be posting pure HTML in to their posts, unless you have it turned on and they are doing some additional formatting that BBCode cannot handle.
In all normal situations, I would advise not allowing HTML posts by any user that isnt an administrator. The need for posting pure HTML on a BBCode-enabled message board is very rare.
