Advice on upgrades!

[floridaideal]

Hello all

I am in need of a forum upgrade , I am using 2.2.8 at the moment and would like to get upto date if possible. I have upgraded loads of times before so thats all fine but I have a lot of hacks on my forum and don't know if I upgrade it will mess everything up.

This is the updates I have made on my forum:

PHP Pages that have been changed with Vbulliten 2.8 (in date order):

showthread.php - {pm blink} {thread preview} {force profile update}

newthread.php - {thread preview} {where to go after post} {vb index} {stars}

search.php - {thread preview} {force profile update} {stop posts apparing in view new

thread} {stop posts appearing in view latest thread}

index.php - {pm blink} {welcome panel} {force profile update} {phpmychat hack} {stop

counting posts} {stop posts appearing in posts since last visit}.

admin/sessions.php - {admin cp warning}

member.php - {where to go after post} {community bulliten} {vb index} {pm sound} {invite

to chat} {view hidden profiles}

newreply.php - {where to go after post} {vb index} {stars}

poll.php - {where to go after post}

global.php - {microstats} {pm sound} {invite to chat}

admin/functions.php - {microstats} {stars} {invite to chat}

admin/index.php - {microstats} {community bulliten} {stars}

admin/template.php {multi template edit} {vb index}

forumdisplay.php - {headers hack} {force profile update}

forum.php - {headers hack}

register.php - {stars}

admin/misc.php - {stars}

admin/usergroup.php {stars}

memberlist.php - {force profile update} {search profile of users}

private.php - {pm sound}

private2.php - {pm sound}

online.php - {invite to chat}

Anyone suggest how or what I should do? I can make a duplicate forum and database to test if thats any use?

Thank you

Stuart