Hello Wayne!
Since you didn't come back on this and nobody else either, I thought I should tell what I found about on this. I installed the contrib too and I'm glad about having someone like FIMBLE who cares about the hacking issues - big up FIMBLE and massive respect!
Anyway, after installing it didn't work at all with the textfiles, so i played arround a bit with the /personal/index.php. I found out that the references to the DOCUMENT_ROOT var didn't resolve.
Finally I changed:
$ipw = file ('DOCUMENT_ROOT/../../banned/Whitelist.txt');
to
$ipw = file ("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/catalog/banned/Whitelist.txt");
and
$IPtrap = file ('DOCUMENT_ROOT/../../banned/IP_Trapped.txt');
to
$IPtrap = file ("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/catalog/banned/IP_Trapped.txt");
and
$fp = fopen ('DOCUMENT_ROOT/catalog/banned/IP_Trapped.txt', 'w');
to
$fp = fopen ("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/catalog/banned/IP_Trapped.txt", 'w');
I hope this will help someone and besides, if anybody thinks this variation implies any bad efects, please let me know.
Peace,
dirk