[alesis404]

groovesalad, I also have a giganews account with username/password and when i tried in testing it did'nt work for me...I then tried my free account from my isp with *no* username/password and it worked fine and I havent even bothered with my giganews account since.

I can't be sure the username/password thing is the problem but it was in my experience just so you know and I also have a giganews acccount but it was purchased directly from the giganews website and not provided by my isp, my isp account does not require a username/password and maybe that is why its working.

When you tried this using your giganews account did you also roll back the post count that is showing in phpmyadmin?

For instance right now the last post on alt.satellite.tv.crypt is 30168607 ...try changing this to 29068607 through phpmyadmin or whatever you use to access the table with the post counts and then visit gateway.php....give it few minutes if it says its loading the page or whatever and see if that works and downloads some posts to your VBB.