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    upgraded the news to 1.3 and same result.
and still, it's forum posts as well.
not just news.
Not sure if this matters, but I was looking at the SQL Database with PHPMYADMIN and when I looked at xoops_users I see this warning:
 Indexes:    
Keyname Type Cardinality Action Field  
PRIMARY  PRIMARY  8   Edit  Drop  uid   
uname  INDEX  8   Edit  Drop  uname   
email  INDEX  8   Edit  Drop  email   
uiduname  INDEX  8   Edit  Drop  uid   
uname   
unamepass  INDEX  8   Edit  Drop  uname   
pass   
 
 
PRIMARY and INDEX keys should not both be set for column `uid`  
 More than one INDEX key was created for column `uname`