upgrade from 2.2.3, move server, admin hack questions

[MRs2]

Hi, I have a few questions:

I just became admin of a club forum that still uses 2.2.3
I advised the club to upgrade, and they are willing to do so. I am new to vB, PHP, MySQL, although I start to grasp it now.

• Upgrade to last version has to be in two steps. Are all (older) scripts still available?
  
• I just became admin. But I have a few problems that need to be solved before upgrade:
  1. in the admin cp I have most rights, but not all. When trying to edit a custom template I get an error when I want to save it (You don't have permission to access to this document on this server). I can edit it directly in the database though. All files in the admin directory have the same protections, so I don't see why I can acces some, but not all. The same with moving a user to another status (also possible in the database)
  2. When someone registers as new user an auto message is sent, using two custom templates (for header and message). But this still comes from the pm-box of he previous admin. I can't find where this comes from. I changed my user.pmpopup to 2, and his to 0. I have no settinggroup.title "default pm" or something like that.

By now I must have read all PHP-files in the admin directory, read all tables in the database, and went through a good bit of your forum.
Some help would be appreciated, for I want to be sure that I will not bump into either permissions, settings or missing scripts when upgrading.


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update: I found the answer to one of my questions finally.
auto-message sent to new users now comes from my userid:banana:

The other two are still open

[Zachery]

You'll have to go to the members area and download the latest version of vBulletin 2 and you should run all of the upgrade scripts to get you to the latest version of vB2.

After that you can upgrade directly to 3.0 or 3.5.

Not sure whats with your rights for file and admin access, in vB2 either you were an admin or you weren't,

[MRs2]

Thanks for your reply.

About the upgrade: I have read in the manual that I need to go to 2.9 first and install all scripts from 2.2.3 to the last 2. version.
My problem was then that I could not find any of the really old scripts.

I justed logged into the member area, and there I only find the possibility to purchase 3.5
Perhaps this is due to the fact that our (purchased) license was only valid until somewhere in 2003. (I forgot where I saw the old versions and scripts before, don't see any of them now)

The moment we get a new licence I hope to be able to see more of the member area, but I wonder now if the oldest scripts are still available.
Also whether buying a new licence gives the right to download both versions 2.9 and 3.5, since I want only 3.5 but need 2.9 for the conversion.

Perhaps I should send a mail to the sales dept?

[Zachery]

If you renew your license you can download the most recent verison of 2.3.x and it will contain all of the upgrade scripts.