faster pussycat... type! type!

when i do something, i like to go all the way, give it the best effort i've got. as long as the best effort does not require too much energy. so, when i was trying to add a registration approval hack to the bbs3k, and things started to go wrong, i didn't just remove the edits and return the board to it's previously unhacked state. no. acting on a tip from an unnamed source on the xmb forum, i attempted to upgrade the forum to the 1.8 version. apparently, the 1.6 version i was using was all sorts of icky. we'll there you go, right? the answers to all my problems, that's why the hack wasn't working, it was the version of the code. it's not that i know nothing about php or perl or anything. so, i followed the instructions. it wasn't supposed to change anything on the board, to the naked eye. the posts should still be there, the users would still be registered, the theme would remain. riiiiiight.

needless to say, it didn't work. everything was lost. and to top it off, i can't register the board so that we can even re-register and start over from scratch. it thinks i am still logged in, even though there are no registered users, and it keeps prompting me to register. sigh.

so that's the status as of now. i am working with someone on the xmb forum. they keep giving me different config.php files to try. and none of them are working. but i haven't given up. yet.