before running the importer script, i made sure everything was read/write.
a few dayze ago, the ubb tech group did an import test of my forum and it worked. very long story short, i had been trying to convert my classic board to a relational database for years and no one, not vb or phpbb or smf or even ubbthreads, could make it happen. i worked with rick (former ubb owner) from the end of last year to about march this year and he had problems and it never converted. my incorrect assumption was that my forum couldn't get converted, so i didn't bother even attempting and contacted ubb tech. it appears that the import/conversion is more than just running an importer script.
