I'm probably not much help, but I've got a couple of things you might consider:
1. At work, I'm pretty sure that we work around the ATTACH limit by simply hosting the images elsewhere and then calling them in IMG bbcode tags. Would that work for you?
2. For the author issue, do you have direct database access via the shell or the GUI (PHPMyAdmin, for example?) Might it be possible to import them under your username and then do a query on the DB (assuming, of course, that the author has been created as a user in vB)?
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