[Freesteyelz]

Hmm...While I haven't done it myself, I think that you can manually select which database you want saved and restored. Rather than doing that, however, I would disable all of the plugins first by Admin CP. I say this simply because one or more of the current, working plugins may be the problem. After they are disabled, then install another plugin (e.g., vB Shout) and see if it works. Again, for the test to work correctly all of the other plugins need to be disabled.

If after you decide to start over I'd simply re-upload the core vB files and rebuild all cache. That should take your forum back to default. That should save you the trouble of re-doing the database. This of course we're assuming that your problem is a non-database issue.