[Vantive]

Hey Everyone.

Since I'm not going to buy a license until I find someone to do the conversion, I guess this is the only place I'm allowed to post.

As mentioned here I have a large PunBB 1.2.17 that I'm thinking about converting to vBulletin.

I need someone who can do the following:

1) Converting Data: I know there is a converter / importer for PunBB but I'm concerned because I don't see a ton of success stories. I just can't move to vBulletin unless I know for sure that Users, Forums, Threads, Posts, and Private Messages will be moved over as well. It would be great if passwords could be copied too, but I understand this could be a problem with the encoding.

2) Preserving Links & Search Engine Rankings: Obviously all my current links to posts (internally and externally) will not work after the conversion. Are there any ways around this? Are they htaccess rules that can be put in place to redirect everything properly? It sure would suck to have every link to forum posts over the past 3 years stop working. Also, with 80% of new visits coming from Search Engines and 10% coming from links to specific posts on my forum I'm VERY concerned about loosing all my built up SEO rankings.

If anybody reading this can, or knows a contractor that can seamlessly handle the above PLEASE PM me and let me know a price range for the full conversion!

Cheers!