Broken links and search issue

[iNate19]

Since upgrading from vB 3.8 to 4.2, a few issues have been identified that I need help correcting.

1. We have various topics/threads that have links to other topics/threads posted for documentation purposes. Apparently all of those links are appearing broken.

http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/show...740/index.html

I know that when I take the thread id (which is shown above as 393740) and place it after....

http://rapbattles.com/forum/showthread.php?393740

like - http://rapbattles.com/forum/showthread.php?393740

.... it fixes the link but I'm trying to find a way to do this without having to manually correct each link


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2. Our forum has been in place since the early 2000's. Apparently after the upgrade, when you use the forum search / advanced search feature, it will not show results for a long period of time.

A member of ours informed us via the following quote

When I try to search, it only gives me results from up to about a week ago and then skips to like 2003-2004. I'm not getting any results in between those time periods.

Any ideas?