Well the major point of jquery is that it allows you to write unobtrusive javascript so it's easier to make your markup fall back to pure HTML

. Even if I started ajaxifying things (which would require me to edit or create php files for an old BB system), they would roll back to normal form submits.
But otherwise, any js mods I do will pretty much be rewrites of whatever is current written, so I can pull it out of the template files and clean it up so we don't have a million "onloads", "href="javascript:...." or whatever other inline javascript solutions are built into this system.
but this is just future planning... I'm not committing myself to any javascript rewrites yet... just trying to level things out.
cookie box was set as a hidden field, automatically enabled, I changed it to a checkbox now.
P.S. rss feed was borked for ~18 hours, fixed now.