Hi Saka, me again 

Using SEF Advance 5.4.0, SMF 1.1.4, and Orstio Bridge 1.1.7 with J! 1.0.12, I discovered an issue with quotes not working in my bridge SMF forum. I am using your .htaccess file.  Here is the problem:

This is the link generated in the forum:

http://www.kaitech.hk/option,com_smf/Itemid,71/action,post/quote,6690/topic,1755.0/num_replies,0/sesc,dd123760d51bbcf60fa3059b445f3d60.html

However, clicking it and THIS shows up in the address bar, and all I see is my board's index:

http://www.kaitech.hk/option,com_smf/Itemid,71.html?action=post;quote=6690;topic=1755.0;sesc=dd123760d51bbcf60fa3059b445f3d60

After I altered the address URL manually to take out .html? and move .html to the end, change ? to /, = to , --- it works, but am I missing something, and how can I fix this permanently?

http://www.kaitech.hk/option,com_smf/Itemid,71/action,post/quote,6690/topic,1755.0/sesc,dd123760d51bbcf60fa3059b445f3d60.html

Does SEF Advance strip the word component from the URL?  i.e.

www.kaitech.hk/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,71.html

becomes

www.kaitech.hk/option,com_smf/Itemid,71.html

This is normal behavior right?

Yes.

I don't understand your problem at all, sorry. :S Looks like SMF does some kind of falty redirect.
Why don't you just disable SEF for forum if you don't have human friendly URLs anyway?

Yes. No big point in having SEF on registration links.

That's not good. I will have to take a look on that.

Also, I had to disable my .html suffix because it was causing some problems with SMF... but this is not necessarily SEF Advance's fault, probably SMF bridge will need modification as well.

Is anyone else using Joomla + SMF bridge + SEF Advance here?

1. Is this still being looked at?

Not yet. It takes some time as support for 3rd party components is not priority. But it is on my list.

2. I created a custom SMF module that looks at the global $mosConfig_sef to determine if SEF URLs should be output. When SEF Advance is turned ON, the module is not recognizing $mosConfig_sef is set to on.

$mosConfig_sef is set if SEF is turned on in global configurations regardless of SEF Advance settings.