Changing the topic of this thread and replying to JECE's question, "By the way, do you like the improvements?":
Yes, the improvements are amazing! I joined this site in January of 2007. Back then it was something like phpDiplomacy version 0.2 (or something close). The map colors were fully saturated and quite ugly. A worse problem though was that a lot of the rules weren't implemented properly, such as, it wasn't possible to support a convoyed attack. You could order it, but the support just didn't have any affect. So, after playing a few games, I took a more than 3-year hiatus. When I returned about a month ago, I was pleased to see that the software is now ver 1.0, passes all of the DATC criteria, and that the overall aesthetic quality has improved dramatically.