from now on it should be impossible to create a topic which name contains forbidden characters (like /, &, # etc.). hope everything is fine, but if you discover any bugs please post them in here.

cool. I was actually afraid more people would fall prey to unaccessible topic names, and I would have felt personally responible for each of them.

I think that also Umlaute are problematic in topic names. Browser and Server makers are really only beginning to switch to Unicode, so the probability of something going wrong is very high. At least I had that problem, although it did work when the Umlaut was encoded, such as ü. Any thoughts on that? How does IE handle it?