I think the Staredit & Tips link should be removed since its not longer being updated, and the tutorial database is taking over it. That or you should redirect it to the thread in the (U)forms where it is at least partly working.
Do you, as staff, get complete control over the admin cp? Because that's where such a link is editable. Actually, almost all SEN content can be controlled from the admin cp with proper knowledge. Only thing that can't be controlled are my scripts I believe, because, I'm too lazy to learn to do it the invision way. I will though, soon.
If you do make such content changes, or any changes that might affect something drastically, do keep me informed. I'd like to know what you are doing.
If you fool around, back up what you are playing with first.
They only thing root access would allow you to do is change a way a script works. If you do have 100% of the admin cp, I don't really see a reason why you can't have root access anymore. You could do more damage in the admin cp than with root access.
You could do some research for the staff page. In the skins section, skin_staff is what should appear in the staff link. I changed this plus manually changed the skin cache. It still shows yoshi as admin.
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