i know this was talked about before, but i think i missed it...

whats the deal with ebay links not working on this site? can we fix it or is it some type of bug in the bbs system?

It's a bug in the software. Since eBay changed their page URLs to some weird design, it doesn't work well with the regular expressions in the software and messes up the preg_replace() function call, screwing up the links. I'm sure there's a fix for it, so I'll have to look when I have a chance.