Looks like Rick Sorted this one out...
Open_Base Dir wouldn't let the importer view directories not in the web root... thus the CGI-bin directory couldn't be seen by the script
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copied the cgi-bin folders over to a new directory on the same server and it ran no problem.
Just one hitch now is the conversion seems to think there is no old forums (Probably because there are no categories) so it shows them in the active but not in the forums list...
