[adnedarn]

Thanks guys. The tags that the system (not sure if it was drogonbyte or vbulletin) had was stupid to be honest (they were listed in vbulletin options so I think it was them). That's why I cleared it all out and made my own list of key words and have it selected to only use those keywords (if I'm understanding its use correctly).
Since using only those words most posts won't even end up having tags when before, they did- many tags that were of no relevance to the actual topic. So I think this will have the database even smaller than it was.
I did turn skip_all_errors to false in config.php and didn't see any error messages, does that do the same thing?
I also substituted the skip all errors line for : ini_set("display_errors", true); and didn't get any erros that way either. The page just sits there like it is working, but nothing actually seems to happen.