Plugins not installing - HELP!

[Gadget_Guy]

Hi,

I have been running the forums for year... flawlessly.

Installed plug-ins work fine. (kind of)

What drew me to this issue was I noticed one day when I went to go and use a plugins functionality the options surrounding it were missing.

In particular was the vbsponsors plug in. On the "edit forum" page where I can put in the options all the settings were gone.

So I started poking around and seeing what the issue may be and I noticed that now when I go to add a plugin now it does not install. It appears to install but no options are present for the plugin and it is not working.

(I tried this with SEVERAL plug-ins) so it isn't the particular plug-in... it is all of them.

Trying to diagnose, I disabled a plug-in and re-enabled... and it won't re-enable. I lost all of that plug-ins functionality.

I tried re-installing the plug in and it is not installing.

I have no idea what I did to cause this or where to even start looking.

Can anyone help me?

I am baffled and have no idea what to do. The plugins that I am trying to get installed and re-installed are critical for the forums and I really need some help.

D.