[Bulldog Stang]

Question,

I have already created a sub-forum for my site and have copied the site over to the sub-forum. I have redirected the site to a copy of the current database (Mysql) that I backed up on the day I did all of this. I am in the process of removing all of the 3.8 mods and hacks and what not. All is working well (so far).

Once I am finished with removing the hacks and stuff, I am going to install the latest version of vBulletin onto the test site (the copied version) and get it up and running and all of the kinks and bugs worked out and a style that I like.

My question is this, once all of the above is done and I copy the "new" site back over to the "forums" directory, can I just redirect it to the database that my "live" site was running ???? Or do I have to re-install vBulletin again so that the database reflects the changes of the new vbulletin 4.xx??

I do not want to lose any of the post from the users or anything like that. This project is going to take about a month to complete, so I don't want to lose a months worth of traffic on the site.

Thanks a million for ya'lls input.

Brian