phpBB is dead long live Bulletin!!
phpBB is great, but I've now laid my eyes on its follow-up and once I have the admintools under control I will import all current data to this new format.
I'll use only standard templates and styles, at least as a user's choice, and all these little things will be a thing of the past.
I think that Ed's posts will in the future deserve a sub-forum of their own with an automatic pruning system at work which will delete (or at least archive) the material after the eBay links have died.
The future is looking bright my friend.