As I said Noyb I can't see anything wrong with your setup. You should be able to mod. I don't get it.

@Sand Can they at least fix your post count on this board database? I mean local post count not global since that one seems ok.

And...
I am also someone who they can't link to previous posts

To me that's bollocks! They just don't care to do it. A simple search/replace on the database would be enough to fix that.
I guess I eventually will have to rely on good old javascript to take care of it. Yet a few more lines of unneeded text data for something that should be done directly on the database. And to top it all we now can only use javascript from yuku approved library. Which means simple functions get bloated to complex ones in order to work on all boards and something that could be done with 4 or 5 lines of code using regular expressions now takes 10 times that. :/