Forum upgrade to phpBB 3 - suggestion

[Beaver]

The hangup is with the mySQL database. When it is moved it only shows posts up to june 2005.

Just wondering - I had some problem when I was trying to convert data from one DB server to another. Problem was that I was using forum function for data backup/export which was not able to complete this operation before the pre-defined timeout in PHP server settings. Maybe this can be your problem too - export will stop before it reach end of table with topics. Make sure that your exported data are complete with all tables and it's content