[El Queso]

I haven't repaired yet. I'm waiting for our admin to make a copy of the database so I can take a look locally and try to reproduce the problem in my dev setup. Plus I need to take the forum down and we're in the busiest part of our day and wanted to wait until a little later.

I have to admit that sometimes MySQL seems a little flaky over what I'm more used to with MS SQL, but I just can't imagine what kind of a database issue would cause my symptoms, with the two specific things that I'm having problems with. Being a hail-Mary, I'm going to do it, but it's not a priority for the moment.

As far as the version, yeah. We've made a lot of modifications to the forums, and some of it was done by guys who modified the code files directly, not understanding some of the more complicated issues related to making plugins work without modifying the vB code, plus we've made extensive modifications to the templates. We've thought about upgrading to 4.2 but I'm afraid we'll have a lot of issues. We'll probably move directly to 5 or develop a custom solution that fits more what we're trying to do.