Script for recreating deleted "thread" record?

[michaelab]

My board is unfortunately suffering rather frequently from phantom thread deletions which are always accompanied by a MySQL error 1030 "got code 127 from table handler". It's infuriating and I guess I have to put it down to the MySQL v4.0.12 corruption bug. My host refuses to upgrade to MySQL v4.0.15 so there's pretty much nothing I can do.

The specifics of what happens is that the "thread" record for the thread goes missing but all the "post" records are still there. The error message I get always contains the threadid. So, what I've been doing is re-inserting the correct thread record based on data from the post table.

Clearly this must be automatable with a script that just takes the threadid as an argument and inserts a thread record based on data from the post table. Before I go and write such a script, has anyone done something like that already?

Thanks,
Michael.