All Showing Up As Guest...
 

I'm trying to duplicate my database, so I can just upgrade easier to vB 2.3.0...I got all of the tables copied over to my new Database, threads, posts, word, user, etc, but in all of the posts, every user except for me shows up as guest...What gives?

Copy the entire database, not just parts (http://www.vbulletin.com/manual/movingservers.html).

The whole idea was to streamline it...Just add the Data, posts, users, not all of the hacks...My DB was nearing 200MB, most of it was useless junk that would've taken too long cleaning up...

Is there some connection I'm missing to connect users to their posts?? They show up on the actual Database via PHPMyAdmin, just not in the vBulletin...

Theoretically all you need to do is copy the user and userfield tables but it can still be unpredictable. Just copy everything and then delete what you don't think you need.

It's on the same server, I might have just as well worked with one database...My theory is this, I need to restore Users FIRST, then threads and posts, so they have users to be associated when they get populated...

I'm not an SQL expert, but it makes sense, it's worth a shot...