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Steffen's right.  No CAPTCHA is going to stop all spammers.  There's likely that no system at all which will stop all spammers.&nb...

Did you upgrade the story end module as well as the basic eFiction?

No.  You need to use a text editor like notepad to make changes directly to the code.

And no offense, but you really don't have enough experience with eFiction yet to be diagnosing things as bugs.

You can fix it one of two ways:1. Change the settings to "narrative" instead of "variables"2. Put the template from the settings i...

Did you check your skin's variables.php file to make sure it's not active because the skin is forcing it to be active?

Generally, don't change the access levels in the panels.

Sorry. It's "variables" you want to use.  It's the same as use .tpl in the other blocks.

You'll have to change the setting to in the block admin to use .tpl and use that format.  See the wiki.

You don't. Ratings are built in to be required.

You're just over-writing the existing files with the updated files.

Make sure you've got the challenges module files uploaded fully.  It seems like there's an out of date file in there somewhere.

You're missing something in your database, but I'm not sure what.  Use phpmyadmin to check the settingsfanfction_modules table. 

Empty all the tables in the database then reimport your data.  If you get an error that the table already exits, drop all the tables in the datab...