By the way, I think the PM page problem is probably an error in renaming the table (see my previous post) it's looking for this one:
black612.phpbb_privmsgs an sez' it ain't there...
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You won't have lost any of the original tables if you were following the upgrade procedure from phpBB v2 to v3 in section 5 here:
http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents. ... =3#convert though they do warn you that some passwords get lost because of UTF-8 character set handling in V3.
Have another go... phpBB v3 has some nice new features for posting, handling spam, searches and a host of other goodies... persistence will be rewarded... :)
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