[dkthompson]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

ImpEx itself should never change an existing admin user (userid = 1 for example), so not sure how you ended up with no valid admin. After the import you will always need to move the users to the correct usergroup and/or edt the newly created usergroups.

PS You should never try to manually change the data using phpMyAdmin as you seem to be trying.

If you have lost your access information for your Admin account and can not reset the password using normal procedures, then please do the following:
- Register a new regular forum account (or you could use an existing account).
- Upload tools.php from the 'do_not_upload' folder of your vBulletin distribution to your admincp directory.
- Now point your browser to tools.php.
- Choose "[Reset Admin Access]" to promote the new user account to admin
- Once your problem is fixed please remove tools.php again from the server.
- Optional: If needed add the userid of the new user to the super administrator list in your config.php

Thanks Marco, worked a treat, the reason I had no admin ID 1 was on the last data import I merged it with my imported user gave admin rights & deleted Admin ID 1, that was the wrong thing todo I see now, anyway I know now tools.php is a great help & has many useful functions.

Oh & I have protected admin user ID's now in config.php as well, to prevent inadvertant modification again.