Well...
I have the download on my computer for an exact copy of the site ( see post below )...and I have the PHPBB upgrade version too ( in standard silver )...we could upload it to a sub-domain and start all over...but then we would lose everything up to that point...it would be a new forum...
so...I'm hoping we can somehow download the posts and upload them to the new forum if at all possible...
then the whiz can diddle with that one all he wants.