[mccollin]

As an alternative, would this work?

I have concluded that there are roughly 100 missing topics in my phpBB database. I'm assuming that the import script moves them over sequentially, so if I create dummy topics, and then change their topic ids to the missing numbers, I should end up with a clean index that I can add to the old topic number, to get to the new thread number? Would this work?

Is there any danger of creating these dummy records? Should I create them as real topics and then change their id numbers, or should I just insert rows in the topic table? I'm guessing that I should create the topics with a dummy id, then I can purge the user's messages for that ID after very easily. Is there any risk of changing the topic ids?

This won't work for the posts because there are just too many of them, but I think that getting topics straight will solve most of my problems for now.

Thanks.