Doesn't anybody have any ideas about moving to 7.3 with this problem.
I don't know if I have a data base problem or corrupted code.
Right now, if I have to changed anything on the Forums Settings or Category pages I go back to have about 20 forums lost and it takes about 2 hours if keyboard time to get them all visible again.
Can't go on like this.
Either I don't make any changes or I start and new data base.

My first move would be to upload fresh files of whatever version you are currently using (taking care to not overwrite any files in the /includes, /styles, and /cache_builders/custom folders). You could have corrupted files causing the issue.

Since this isn't an issue endemic to any threads version, you can be pretty sure it's something you've done. Which means it should be fixable by uploading the unedited files - check permissions and uploading techniques (ascii vs. binary, etc.)

Allen:
Thanks for the response. I haven't played with any of the code but it does seem to me that something changed.
The problem occured a long time after I had 7.2.2 running.
I'm going to upload the code for the Forums Settings or Category pages first because that seems to be where the problem is.
Althoug it is possible that it's in a piece of code common to them both. I'll think I'll look at the code for them both first looking for a common piece of code.
This will probably take me a while.

Well, I've ddid like Allen suggested.
Then I used the Forums Settings Page to re-order 2 forums..
I lost 33 Forums - all disabled and Title field blanked
1 forum was just disabled.
These are the last 34 forums in the Forums Setting Display page.

At this point I have no idea what to do.
I have changes to make to the Forums for the new fishing season and a new release to install.
I have no idea what happened, but my site will be useless shortly as similiar sitescatch up and users start migrating to those sites.

Best bet at this point is to open up a support ticket so I can take a closer look.

OK, Rick.
I upgraded to Silver and submitted a ticket.
Thanks.

I think you can follow this thread and get a hold on the problem.
I have done what Allen sugest and refreshed all that code.

Good Luck

suhosin strikes again. For anyone following along or comes across this in a search. suhosin is limiting the amount of form variables that can be passed to the script and discarding the rest.

This suhosin?

The ISP has changed some parameters as Rick suggested and all is fixed.
THANKS RICK!!

They also must have changed some other parameters because the site is flying this morning.

Now I can fix up the lost fields, enable the "lost" forums and move on to 7.3!!

Yep, Allen, that suhosin. Many hosts just install it and leave it with all of the default settings. Many hosts think all it does is block insecure requests. They have no clue that it actually limits the amount of variables that can be passed.

On some of the admin screens, we can POST hundreds of variables if there are many forums, and the default suhosin setup will end up just dropping everything larger than what the limit is.