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Main thing is, you got your site back up and running.
I admit, trying to tweak XOOPS at first, without any knowledge of the applications internals, can be quite daunting. You wont believe how often I had brought my site to a crash, just due to tupid litlle mistakes. Take a read through the Wiki link I posted, and you will quickly gain a much better understanding.
Though once you have gotten yourself aquainted, it will be as fast as hand scripting, only far more powerfull.
XOOPS still has a lot to fix, but it is definetly on the right track.
Glad to hear, that you are now happy with your XOOPS powered system. If there should be any trouble, just come in and ask the community. If some one can offer adive, they will try their best.
Regards