thx for your reply.
I have no idea how to create them or what they are!
But I was tld they could help me duplicate forums or just help me make the process of adding almost 2000 forums easier.
Aparently they are the missing loop to make the forums that I added into the mysql table 'forum' appear by serializing the forums data and adding them to the datastore - I'm just repeating this from earlier advice but still no good because I have no idea....
Really wanted it to work out and had offered throughout the forum to pay someone to help, but no takers!
So I've started adding the forums through the ACP... Just looks like its about 100 hours work (85%+ of the forums are redirects to an active forum) but this whole thing is still taking too much time. I'm about 20 hours into it...
If someone comes up with a solution then I am open eared and open walleted