I thought I saw & somewhere too but I can't find it now (and the search displays nothing for either & or ")

Holy cow the user_groups are messy. So there can be personal user groups and "group" user groups?

yup lol... Scary huh? It's all sorts of wrong lol... see why i advise against using phpbb?

Ok, so it looks like they are actually storing " signs as &quot and & signs as &amp. Looks like I'll need to convert those when doing the import.

I wish I could give you any others, but I'm not sure which ones are and aren't used lol...

Yeah, I'm going to take a crack at importing the "group" usergroups, but not exactly sure if I'll be able to pull it off. Might be something I'll have to revisit later depending on how much time it takes.

At the very least it looks like I can "probably" import the actual groups and at least get the users into the groups. The permissions for those groups might not make it over, but at least all the users will be in the groups they are supposed to be in.

Thats a good comprimise imo hehe...

Ok, so I'm going to make a few more changes and then I'll scp the new phpbb_importer to your site for when you have the time to give it another shot.

Ok, it's sitting in my home directory on your server. I'm sure you can get in there to copy it out