unfortunately, my sleep and lack of knowledge did not fix the issue

could there have been something i did that would cause this to all of a sudden revolt? i used to hack a lot in the files back in the day, but like i said, i haven't touched anything in maybe 3-4 years, outside of moving servers - and even that was almost a year ago, back in august 2011

woo! i'm an uber hack!

so, basically, i couldn't figure out what the issue was, but the entire block causing trouble here was "If it is an anonymous post, don't give a link to their profile"

and since i dont allow anonymous posts, and i don't care (that much) about profiles (until there's an upgrade)... i just commented out lines 921 through 956.

so now, all the threads work again for viewing and replying. the only issue is all the user names are text, and not links. ...but i can live with that for now! hopefully the upgrade (later this... year?) will just swap out all the bad for the good, anyway.

regardless, thanks for your assistance, gliderdad!

Hey Rob! Good to see you around and still breaking your forums

hah! :-p

Isn't that what we all do best?

Yes