I can telnet to my source server and do a mysqldump. The problem is that I am limited to a max file size, so I have to split the database into three pieces - download these, and then piece them together on my harddrive, and then upload them to the target server. My computer runs out of memory while trying to piece these three files together into one (they are +300mb each). Believe me, I've been pulling my hair out on this one
But this seems so silly to go through this when all I'm trying to do is move a couple of forums from one vbulletin to another. I'm hoping that someone has developed a mod to do just that.