Since several months the newloginbox can handle templates. The most recent version can be found in the CVS at sourceforge. If you don't have access to the CVS or don't know how to checkout, you can download a version with some patches at e-netconsulting. :-)
Greets,
Thomas
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Well, one can live only so long by basically exploiting oneself, so I think it's very understood in...
As you mentioned above, " it is much faster to copy and paste the needed stuff from other files." ...
Thanks for your great work and good luck!
++ Michael Cannon! Thanks Thomas for all your work, don't disappear! I read your blog regularly ...