You're awesome in your own right! I'm so glad we're friends, at least of the online variety.

And as far as that code goes, here's how I did it. Just replace the [ and ] with angle brackets.

[textarea cols="30" rows="4" name="link"][a href="http://your thread here"][b]
[font size="5" color="#CC0066" face="georgia"][i]say that you love me[/i][/font][/b][/a][/textarea]

There's probably a more elegant way to do it, but whatever works, right?