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Which I have found through TOO MUCH wasted time, and it is this: Folks who openly dislike native English speakers.

Sounds silly, right ? Trust me, it is neither silly nor trivial and can easily stop you in your tracks. Before trying CMSMS I wasted a bunch of time trying to become a user of Website Baker (and one other before that as well). Trouble is - most of their user-controlled 'help' is non-English speaking and as such they misunderstand and misinterpret things A LOT. Now, add in how easily they are offended and here we have an absolutely perfect recipe for disaster ! How did I discover this? Simple - I'm quite fluent both in my writing and speech and this has resulted in my actually getting banned from the CMSMS forum. If you get the impression that I am please by this you are 100% correct. (I even saved the message to remind me NOT to ever use this or recommend it to anyone in the future !)

No, I am not insane - and here is why: Just installing this CMS and several of it's own modules via their provided XML files caused an error serious enough to stop me dead. I asked for help - waited 2+ days - re-posted asking if maybe this error was unknown. BAM ! Nastygrams from the goderator scolding me for my behavior ? Wow. Now just imagine if my site actually depended upon CMSMS and had been in place for a good while, and something broke, causing me to ask for help, then getting flamed & banned. Nothing quite like having a site rendered useless because of nastiness from someone whose over-inflated ego powerfully resents that they don't really understand English !!! So - another one rides the bus.

No biggy for me, as my site for this is a toy I am playing with to see which is good and which is not. Next I'll try PHP-Fusion and a couple of others with nice, easy auto-installs and see how their help goes if they break from normal things. CMSMS deserves a total avoidance though - that's my 2 cents to share.

Best Wishes to All !