At one time I had USC up and running just fine

. Then

my forum got hacked

and it was gone. Now I have the time to work on it. All the files seems to be in place but I have nothing showing.

I did find this in
Ultimate Side Columns Options
Display Pages For Left Column
Using this setting you can determine the pages where the left column will be displayed. An error occurred while processing the bitfield files, the following information was returned:
Display Pages For Right Column Using this setting you can determine the pages where the right column will be displayed. An error occurred while processing the bitfield files, the following information was returned:
Before I start messing around, what steps should I take to trouble shoot this.