[newvbuser]

Hi guys, I am new here and I hope this is not the wrong forum to post this.

I have a hacked 5.47e Infopop Bulletin board on Linux. By hacked I mean I added many hacks to it (as they arenot part of standard feature set for 5.47e ubb) such as Avatars, Yahoo/Aim/Aol hack, PM hack, Gender hack.

What this has done is that it has added extra fields to each member file.

I have about 4000 users to import and about 25,000 messages to import!

I hope someone here could help me with this import script vBulletin has and how it works.

My question is whether I can map the fields in each member file to the appropriate field in the corresponding member file in vBulletin and then run the script to import users? Or ignore other stuff and only import Username, Password, No. of Posts, Email address, Date of Registration (the essential stuff).

How does importing messages work? What about my styles that I use (color schemes, newtopic/post reply icons, folder icons, posting icons?)

I would appreciate any feedback from experts here. Thanks in advance, Regards, Rick.