yes diabled all hacks and even rebuilt my stats (was reading a post over at vb.com) updated counters too. when i did a search i found to run this query
Code:
update datastore set unserialize = 1,data = ' ' where title = 'maxloggedin'
when i run that it sorts itself out and says the most users online was today.... but when you close the page and re-open it, it reverts to Most users ever online was 1, 01-01-1970 at 01:00.
thanks for the help so far