It really was an impressive display of hair splitting.
I suggest that the quote box quote entire posts, but display that in the reply box, so you can just delete everything but the parts you're trying to quote.
Other idea: individual frames for each post. In that there's only so much room for a post, but you can scroll down through it if it's longer, so the posts don't take up excessive page space. Here's an example of a board that does this (scroll down tot he post by Carnival):
http://mental-block.invisionzone.com/index.php?act=Search&CODE=show&searchid=2c60ead3a77051643e63b4f85bb841b4&search_in=posts&result_type=posts&highlite=wabty
I realize that this would be a lot of programming though, so I'm obviously not expecting Paul to do any of it, I'm just thinking aloud here.
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When the truth is, I miss you.
Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so.
And I�'m tired...
I should not have let you go.