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i followed your suggestion jdseymour and did the upgrade. i followed the toturial on your site to the letter. NOW an even WORSE problem has occurred, as im not able to get to my forums log-in screen at all. let me explain, when i first finished the download, everything was well, i was logged in as the admin and went into the forums admin section with no problems. i made sure the settings were the same as the old forum, with only registered users being able to access the forums. then i logged out, took a break, had been working on it for 15 plus hours, and came back now to log in with a test user to see if i can see the email addresses of my registered users, and for some reason I CAN'T GET TO THE LOG IN PAGE. the browser keeps refreshing on the same redirect screen that says i don't have authorization to view this forum. it used to say that before the upgrade, ut would redirect to a log in page. now it doesn't it just continues to refresh over and over again.
Jdseymour, i followed your advice and deleted the special rights of the user, but your jdseymour user id is still the same as when you first created it. if you get a chance i'd love for you to just go to the forum again so you can see what i am talking about with how the screen just keeps refreshing. i know im probably not saying it right or using the right term for whats happening.
before i was baffled...now, well im just way too close to quitting. cant believe it has been so hard.