Thanks guys, we've known that our phpbb software was out of date for years, but we had a bunch of add-ins and modifications that made it almost impossible to update. Jack worked on it for several months, he had to manually back-out many of the add-ins and mods we had done over the years to finally get the software and database back to a format that was supportable. …. then he had to update both to the current version.
It's really astounding that he was able pull it off, I thought for sure we were going to have to wipe it all clean and start over.
As it is now, both our software and database are now at the most current version,....and some of the new features are pretty sweet.