David seems to have gone AWOL (I think he is in a plane right now) & I have no idea where he got to with the database so I have started from scratch!
One of the big files has been restored for me by powweb & I'm waiting for them to restore 2 others. Hopefully that should be it.
I made the request at 3:15am & they said 24 hours.

Mistareno has applied the normal style to the new vbulletin install on powweb so once the database is working with the really old 2006 version of vbulletin, I will upgrade it so the tables will talk to the new version. Then I simply tell the styled new version to look at the recovered database.

I found a user table from late 2008 on my laptop that goes up to member 7770 so less people may need to re-register. I hope it will talk to the older tables. My mysql skills are limited but browsing in mysqladmin things look very good. The last post was by UFO.

Hopefully OK later tonight or in the morning. It's out of my hands for the moment.