Rick,
Both of these tables are indeed empty after an import. The import script when running (it runs about 20 mins) appears to be working fine and is doing thousands of queries and you can see the topics being passed on the script output as it runs.

All the categories and forums are fine, looks perfect. Just no posts are present.

I can login and make a test post, and then the posts and topics tables are updated with that one test post.

I've run throught the process 5 times now, even loaded the older 7.02 and had the same results.

Still dont understand why it does not recognize the members and cgi-bin behind the web root either.

Thanks!