Damn, they're making it hard for people to port stuff to it then. We're not gonna fix this on our side. However, we use very few globals. From the back of my head, only $roster and $installer. If you just export those to the global scope after they are created (in settings.php and admin/addon_install.php), everything should work fine.

If I were you, I'd complain to the joomla folks about the design decision though.

Add $addon and $tooltips to that list. The installer and rosterdiag use a bunch of other globals as well.

i did everything as instructed in the readme text but got the following error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function border() in /var/www/PAGANS/components/com_wowroster/lib/functions.lib.php on line 172 ; i googled but came across nothing, have u seen this before?

So far as i know could this happen, when a uploaded file was corrupted.

Try to upload the files again, maybe with another FTP program (for example Filezilla).