I understand your point but the system does partially work like when going directly to view a post (showpost), but not in the thread view (showthread). My original
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version was very old so I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. I'd opt for a hard reinstall at this point. I've already deleted all of the values that were defined, all categories, etc, uninstalled & reinstalled, but it's still exhibiting the same behavior when I add them back.