What Pharaoh says makes sense, of course.  Yes there are similar and better bbs forum software out there that are more stable, but e-Blah is the evil that we know (and like) right now.  

The biggest problem is the time and patience required to transfer over all of the legacy data from the existing site.  My first goal was to simply move the site as is with the same software re-installed,  to a different server and get it stable again - but even that is more time than I can allocate for a while (not that I thought it would be easy).  IF the problem with the forum software is an internal bug, then likely it won't get sorted out since the E-blah software author hasn't touched this software in almost a year now I think.

I think what we need is a keener pc whiz who would want to take this on, and who has enough time/support that taking it on won't affect their livlihood or family.

Very rare, but happened last week a lot...and the search was involved, as well as looking for threads I follow...

I thought about a thing, connection variations, like mine was worst before today, I ordered a YAGI antenna, and
as I am out in the boonies, I use a Wilson booster, and a blackberry cradle, with a car antenna (before) while the
Rogers Mobile USB  card access was around 100kps download, and 40kps upload, I now resolved and improved
to 160 to 190kps download and 40-75kps upload simply by getting the uni-directional antenna, which works better.

I thought that guys like me with variable connections might influence the server response to others, as I experienced
in online racing ... there was always a guy with so much variations that it influenced the overall result!!!

Anyway, I am all resolved and was simply brainstorming when I saw this thread...

Thanks for your hard work, this website rocks, and has made my experience so much better...

Alain