Ok, hmm, lots of questions.
We have just reopened after a brief shutdown in which we dumped everything. Members are just trickling back in, we've got about 50 right now, and at our busiest before we shutdown we had at least a few hundred members. Right now we're getting about 10 new members a day, but I expect that to trickle down to maybe one or two a day. This is something I'd like to be permanently incorporated for all new members forward.
Define 'guts of your forum'.
My tolerance level for tedious manual tasks is above average, but not saint-like. At this point, I'm envisioning my only option as having to suspend posting member by member, and I'd like something less tedious than that.