While in the middle of installing and editing the 1.02 version I got the email for the new one 1.03. So I installed that version. The main problem now seems to be that its not saving the settings for vB.Sponsors. For further testing, I went and edited the forumhome templates to assume the sponsors are always enabled and it worked fine.
Also, for lawahdy .. Mannak lawahdak, I got the same error when checking statistics