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Well, I had a bad experience with jnews. I first installed the main program, which went smoothly. After that you get a message that the it has to be published. I dont know why they added this info, it might be because many users forget in genereal to publish their extensions and start bothering the support team! However, I published the extension. When I went back to their site to see if there were any plugins for jnews I saw about 8 plugins for jnews. I download all of them and istalled them with no problem. The problem started when I tried to publish them. I selected all jnews plugins, one after another and published them. At cron I got as an result a bad url page on my administrator site. I went to the website and it was gone, no website, no admin. I felt like the world had fallen on my head! I went into the domain site with ftp. But what to do ? where could I in heaven know how and what to reverse!! Good thing is the online help advised me just to delete all jnews folders, which I did. After that I got my site back. The support person said I did not need to install all the separate plugins as they are already included in the main extension. Pitty I couldnt smell that on my fingernails as noone else seemed to find it to mentioned somewhere and save me time and effort besides the horror feeling having lost the site for 2 hours!
Further more I tried to installed it a second time, I dont want anyone to say I didnt give it a second try. But as anyone can imagine, just by deleteing some folders it doesnt mean it is clean in the admin section. So as soon as the extension was installed the site went down again. I tried to take every single plugin in an unplublished state to see where the problem exactly was. I had no luck until today. For me this extension was a good lesson of being careful with every little bits and piece that suppose to help you make your site more interesting and richer in content. I think I will start from now on a second replicated site and do my testing all there. It takes more time but can save you some tears one day. My joomla version for the records is 1.6.4 with no language mods or anything that could mess up the extensions with eachother.

I really do not know what went wrong and I do not feel like wanting to loose more time on it.