YURIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
stupid SQL query language spaces

I missed the darn space in red between the table field name and double quotes

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'Initalise the strSQL variable with an SQL statement to query the database to get the number of posts the user has made
strSQL = "SELECT " & strDbTable & "Author.No_of_posts, " & strDbTable & "Group.Special_rank, " & strDbTable & "Author.No_of_topic " & _
"FROM " & strDbTable & "Author " & strDBNoLock & ", " & strDbTable & "Group " & strDBNoLock & " " & _
"WHERE " & strDbTable & "Author.Group_ID=" & strDbTable & "Group.Group_ID " & _
"AND " & strDbTable & "Author.Author_ID=" & lngLoggedInUserID & ";"
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works like a charm

....will upload the changes in files and complete the mod :P