Problems after crash

[Katebekett]

Trying to resolve an issue. The person who originally setup the forum (and had access to the Host's cPanel) left because of creative differences. But not before he ran a script to make everyone - all 554 members, administrators (user group 6). We shut the board down in short order.

We have a reliable backup that we restored successfully after a re-organization of the board on the 4th of April 2011. but the backup does weird things to Vbulletin now.

Steps Followed:

1. Created New Database
2. Added new user
3. added user to database
4. installed vbulletin 4.1.2
5. restored the database backup via cPanel > MyPHPAdmin > import database
6. database gets populated, users, styles and all other associated stuff comes along

The input area worked fine before the database restore.

Here's the problem: login input area (id/password) does not work as normal, after the database restore. the "user name" text does not disappear when typing the member name, and the password is shown in clear TEXT, it even shows up as hint, instead of the usual dots.

where is it going wrong, and how do I fix it? . as this is a fresh install, I expected no corruption issues.