Can someone explain a parsing error when trying to adapt BBC Options For News?

[Grammy]

@Grammy In our forum, we had similar issues with BBCode and our Shoutbox - it parses BBCode, but there is no editor / buttons for it.

The solution our non-BBCode-experienced members use: use the ordinary post editor to compose the BBCode-enriched message. Then copy the text from there to where you want to have it.

That'll work, qc, thanks!  Maybe I'll hang onto the files and play with them just for fun but, for now, I have a forum to finish preparing, so I'd better cut my losses.  Thanks, everyone, for your help!