[Lynne]

The archives show the same posts/forums to a user that they would see on the regular site. If they can't see a forum through the regular site, then they should not be able to see the forum through the archives.

Do a test and create a new user. Put them in the exact same usergroups that this user is in - same Primary group and same Secondary group(s). Now login with that user and try to go to your Mod forum. I'm not talking about trying to 'see' it on your forum home page, but go to the actualy link - www.yousite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=x where x is the forumid of one of the forums they somehow got access to. Then do the same through the archives - www.yoursite.org/forum/archive/index.php/f-x.html Can you see anything? Try each of the forums you think they got access to.