[CaptainAwesome]

I did get a response from VB support. I had given them admin access to the site as well as access to a test account.

They gave me a bunch of steps to do which i feel is a little beyond my skill level (i'm a newbie) and i don't want to end up screwing up the site.

To troubleshoot this, first download a fresh copy of the vBulletin ZIP file from the Members Area then reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server. Also be sure to upload the admincp files to whichever directory you have set in your config.php file. Then run 'Suspect File Versions' in Diagnostics to make sure you have all the original files for your version and that none show 'File does not contain expected contents':

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions

[Note: In some cases you may also need to remove any of the listed .xml files in the includes/xml directory.]

Next, disable all Products except the vBulletin Blog and vBulletin CMS (Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Disable) AND uncheck all the plugins except those related to the vBulletin Blog and vBulletin CMS by (Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager). You must do BOTH of those steps in order to disable all non vBulletin Modifications.

If you have vbseo installed, you must disable this via it's own control panel AND remove any htaccess you added to your .htaccess file for it.

Then if you still have this problem, create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Set this as the site Default Style under Admin CP > Settings > Options > Style & Language Settings > Default Style. Finally empty your browser cache, close all browser windows then try again. Make sure you change to the new style and view your forums with it.


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Anyone know a more targeted approach?

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ok i worked out the problem and thought i would post what i did in case other people have this problem in the future.

I had given the test account permission to view and post in those sections at some point as part of my testing. Later, i removed that account from the user groups that could access it.

After doing more testing, i found that even thou the account permissions were not suppose to allow them to view the titles of the thread, they could in fact see all the threads they had started although they could not read the contents. This only happened to started threads, and not just any thread they posted to.

I'm guessing this is glitch or oversight in the coding.