It would be nice if there was an option added for groups that would be something like, keep member in this group no matter what or soemthing like that.

Here is the problem we are having, we have several different groups based on post counts. Unfortunatley we have colors assigned to each different group. Our Admins and Mods also have a special color associated with them. But each time they make a post their color changes to the color of whatever group is associated with their post count. This is very annoying having to change back to the admin and mod group color every single day.

Think you are confusing ranks & groups.

Why not assign ranks based on post counts rather than groups? Ranks don't have a color associated with them but they may have an image associated with them.

Here's a knowledge base article on ranks:-
http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/everyth ... ranks-v3x/