I don’t mind upgrading the forum by hand, loosing all post is out of the question as I do not want to disenfranchise the few users the forum has, its only 421 but I sure would hate to see them go.

if someone could give me a starting point as to the changes in the database I would greatly appreciate it

I have even considered retyping each post by hand (1398 Post) if that’s the only way to get it done that’s the way I will do it, but I’m hopping there is an easer way...