Yeahhh Zoom update sucks. I saw there are some workarounds somewhere in forum. maybe at zoomfactury. I´ll do not use it so I cant help you there.

About modifications. I guess the most are small hacks? like voting and onlinestatus in Last visitors or is it CBE?

btw.: the german translation is funny maybe u should use joomfish instead of google.

yes the translation is funny.and about hacks its all CBE