During an attempt to upgrade a clients site from 2.0.7.3 to 2.0.16, the stories module ceased to work. As it turned out this was a very important module for my client, so I first tried to find an upgraded version and was unable to (even though the developers site still exists).
So I had to look into other options. With the help of M0ntey and SMD, I was able to hack the class.newstory.php in the module to work with XOOPS 2.0.16.