It sounds like most of the errors you are getting are self-created when you have edited your templates or something similair. There is just simly no way that with the default setup of FUDforum that some of the errors you have explained will appear.


Onwards to a free CSS lesson:

To define a max-width or similar to an image in a post, use CSS.

The tag that contains message text is span.MsgBodyText

So, to affect images inside a post, you would write the CSS rule like this:

span.MsgBodyText img {
max-width: 100px;
}

(smileys are also images)

A great tool for design purposes is Firebug which is an addon to Firefox. With that you can inspect elements on the page as well as edit the CSS to preview changes.

When you switched to path_info theme, did you create a new theme based on the path_info template set?

http://www.soundforums.net/index.php/del/3058/?SQ=8e188b3df630f90db5b0a0b167162f77