Perhaps someone else here has other ideas, but I'm tapped out at this time. If you are doing everything correctly, then I would venture to say that the issue is implementation in the forums. For example, when I have an input form on a site that I program, I almost always strip the html out of what is submitted via the form. The form you use at the forums could be stripping out your imagemap. That's why you should contact the forums administrator and ask him/her specifically about how an imagemap should be done on the forums.

Have we seen a link to the image map?

No Worries Brian, and no Imagemap here yet Eric ( Hello ),

but if someone could demonstrate one here in a post would be good,

but as I see here, we can only have an Attachment.

Here's one.
Image Map

Very Good Eric,

So is that a URL Link, to your Site that is hosting the Image Map,

or did you Embed the Script in your post here?

Thats a link to a web page with the code generated by Image mapper added to it. Remember to upload the image to the same location that your image map code is.

Yep, no worries Eric,

And thank-you all for your help, has been an interesting chat. Dave I

This brings up an interesting question, Eric. I haven't tried it, but can the map be remotely hosted? I don't think so, but I wonder if there is a way.

Good idea Brian,

I did a bit of looking around, and they say that client sided scripts would slow the page down on downloads and would have more scripts, but there is talk on server side image maps.

All new to me, Regards Dave I

What are you referring to when you say remotely hosted?