Tim
5.1 works fine as a standalone and there are no permissions issues we have ever heard of running as a standalone. Nothing has changed on that end that we know of in many versions except adding more permissions to the usergroup table as time has went on with newer versions. You stated here more in depth what permissions your talking about when installing as a 5.1 standalone for me to respond further here. Now with that said that software is over 2 years old and we no longer offer that since each new version replaces the previous. You thread here is you have installed with 5.1 and can not get it to work with vb3 and then you say you you got 4.86 to work with
vb 3.6. Thats fine if you say so but from a company standpoint and my personal knowledge we know how it works I can clearly say it does not work with
vb 3.5 or 3.6. You can choose to believe me or not there but I can guarantee that since we had to redo our entire integration with vb3 when 3.5 came out and we made version 5.21 compatible with that version of vbulletin. All other versions will not work. Everyone who has had earlier versions and upgrades to
vb 3.5 or 3.6 has had to upgrade.
Version 4.86 as well has some serious security issues and you will not want to run it and need to upgrade. Maybe 4.86 will work for you without using vb3 integration who knows I dont know anyone who runs it like that. Have you tried turning on the vb3 integration I bet it wont work will it. From a support perspective all we can tell you to do is upgrade.