I have Fireboard 1.0.4 and if I navigate to a locked topic by going down the tree:
Forum>Category>Topic...then it displays the "The topic has been locked" message and regular users are unable to see the reply/quick reply options...

However, if I navigate directly to the topic by way of the little gray arrow (show most recent message) link, or if I use the Recent Post link...the user sees the reply options. From there, they are able to use the quick reply option to make a post to a locked topic.

Has anyone else encountered this and/or came up with a fix? This is an important aspect of my forums that I need to have solved before I can release it for use to my clan members as they will just exploit this to reply to locked topics (most of the time they won't realize the topic is even locked)

I would appreciate any help...thanks!