[FCDobbs]

Thanks for the suggestion.
I have asked my hosting company to do as you ask.

In the meantime, I have been able to get things going, by doing a little
more work myself.
First, I verified that all the tables in my extract/backup were actually imported
into the database. Hmmmmm.... I was missing 2 tables. So I imported that data.
Then I did a "Repair" tables, and a "Re-Index".
That fixed things... we can now use the forum.

BUT (of course, there is always a "but")... my Admin Control Panel has some
"Strange" things.
I am attaching a screen shot of a sample of it.

Notice that some of the Left Menu bar items have asterisks surrounding them.
Yet, I am able to invoke those items.
Notice that quite a few of the phrases are absent... they are just not being displayed.
Some of these are associated with listboxes, some with radio buttons,
some should appear between two "brackets" ("[]").
Also, although none show on this screen shot, some Button faces are blank/empty,
so I don't know what they are supposed to do.

I think there are some "phrases" missing... yet when I look at the "phrases"
table, and I compare the extracted file which I reloaded from,
there are 10931 phrases in both.

So obviously there are some other things missing.

I have reloaded 159 tables. I don't receive any messages about any tables missing.

Any thoughts on what is still missing (or incomplete).

I really appreciate the help.