hmm..that creates a question...that has to be a manual error from a person huh? Maybe someone tried isntalled a hack, one of my staff techs or admins?

maybe you need to communicate with your staff

So you are saying that this could only occur by someone going in trying to change something or messing up a hack correct?

generally speaking the only time that the config file is touched is when you originally install vB. it was possibly a problem with your host, but I really couldn't be sure about it.

Seems they didnt over write the previous vb config.php with the new config.php for 3.5

The config.php file was the correct one, but it had shifted all onto one line hence the problems. Reformating it back into the correct layout solved the problem.