hi
just put the database on a new server, which is faster and hopefully smoother
still some things to do but fingers crossed - seems better
unfortunately it means that a few of you (who were logged in around noon today 29th jan) may have to repeat the avatar thing - described above, in your Profile, as i had to take the chance to use/migrate the database (which i thought had failed but hadn't), and lose 20 mins of members' input (1 post which i saved and sent to the member to repost) (our database is >50 mb and exceeds the usual import methods, and takes a lot of time to export/import > 1hour -meaning that i have to have the Forum in maintenance mode for that time, and if anything goes wrong i have to repeat it - which was 5x this week)
sry bout all this but please realise that i have spent a lot of time this week with the 'board and have been up 2 full nights sorting this all out --

most of it because of trouble at our Hosts end
