[dlewisr]

Thank you both for sticking with me! I have contacted them and you're right it is the webserver that upgraded to 5.3.6 I am running that on my site but previously it was 5.2. I don't know how that changes? Can they change that from the web host side? My apologies for sounding such a noobie......... but basically that is what I am.

I asked them when the upgrade occured and the time and date they give me corresponds exactly with that of the first email of the data base error and so it must be incompatibility issues.

There last email was this:

Hello David,

We do not provide support fro custom coding. You will need to code your site appropriately to work with php 5.3. The only alternative to this would be to put you on one of our older servers with the older version of php but be aware this would only be a temporary fix and all servers will eventually migrate to the newest version of php and similar issues will continue. The best solution is to look for a solution on getting your code working on php 5.3.
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Regards,

I thought Vbullettin was already 5.3.6 compatible. Is it? Although I am still on the 4.1.2 version and haven't upgraded to 4.1.4 yet.