No, on the config for each forum, you move it under the new top forum you made.

so i have to make a new category, and then just move them sub forums back into it. and delete the old categories?? is that right?

Nope. Make a new FORUM under the caegories you have (I called mine "Categories") then move the sub forums under it.

Like this:

Existing Category
--New Forum <---you added this
----Existing Child Forums <---and moved these under it

Yes, just what Dennis said. That should do it.

a yeh, kind of get ya. il try that. thanks.

It actually worked out pretty good. I wonder why converting the existing categories to forums broke it though?

Because the main category was lost, so it was category-less :)

If you created a new catgory, then made the old catgory to be it's child, then made that old category to a forum, it would have worked. It wasn't really broken though, it just doesn't look as good as under a category.

So if I did that--^ then dumped the top category, would that work?

No, it will "work", but I'm sure you won't like the look. :)

Is it possible to make couter to count sub forums..it will look like directory style

something like

Computer (5)- Software (2) - Hardware (1)
- services(4) - Products (8)