i may have copied includes in a moment of distraction ... too many kids running around the office on sunday morning ...

cachebuilders and styles were definately left alone

run install.php to the "create yoru admin user" screen and you should be safe, from there run upgrade.php.

i seem to have got my system back .... a few pieces have fallen off, but it's largely intact.

thanks!

one of the things that has not yet come back is my shout box! it just stays blank, and won't accept posts.

may be unrelated, however my firefox debugger reports this error when my main page opens

uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open

same problem in IE7.

do i need to replace a file that may ahve been overwritten??

That sounds like a domain name issue. Normally you'll see this if you have your full url set to domain.com but you are visiting by http://www.domain.com, or vice versa. There are some security precautions with AJAX in that it will only allow you to use it on the exact domain you're currently on.

Hopefully that makes a bit of sense.

yes, i found the problem. my configuration had lost the setting where i declared more than one domain (eg, http://www.jakchat.com|http://jakchat.com)

that fixed that problem ... now for all the rest

buggering up your configuration files is not recommended. you may wish be make a note of that in your documentation

haha, but even Rick buggers his config file

a perhaps unrelated problem: i am unable to use the language editor.

/forums/admin/languageeditor.php comes up completely blank.

re-upload that file and the associated template for it.