yes, all altertables are run exactly as per the instructions. That wouldn't have anything to do with it anyway, since it was running with no problem for several months on 6.4.1, then it started acting up for no apparent reason. Hence, I tried to fix the problem by upgrading with clean scripts that had not been modified, which of course still did not fix the problem. BTW, I saw that post regarding the exploit reports. I applied the fix but id does not solve the problem.
Can someone tell me in what file does the online db get updated?