Here's what I need.
If you look at this page:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25993&foru...
you will see that underneath each poster's name is a progress bar and a corresponding number of words. Members of this site are attempting to write a 50,000 - word novel in one month, and as they progress toward that goal, they have a field in their user profile where they enter the number of words they've written so far -- that's all they have to do. The script calaculates what percentage of 50,000 their number is and posts the progress bar to show how close they are to their goal.
I am running Drupal instead of Xoops, and my members often have word goals that are different than 50,000, but what I would like is:
A field in the user profile where users can input their current word count.
A progress bar that appears under their name (or somewhere else in their posts), showing how far along they are on the 0-100% continuum, along with the xxx/xx,xxx notation.
A section in the administration forum of my system that allows me to turn the ability to access this feature on and off according to individual posters or groups (taxonomy/access controls).
And a section in the administration forum that allows me to set the final word count that the user's word counts will be compared to at any given time (25,000 instead of 50,000, for example).