oh mein Gott, so many words... and all is about recruiment? -)
If you need help, just let me know as I used to build sites professionally and I still do in my spare time now and again.
we need help. perl is forever, but for some reason it is written in php. it's very sad.
Also a quick edit your language hook only changes the top menu links to English but not your forum board message, you may want to look into that.
interesting bug. I'll check it.