Ok if I am reading this properly your old UBB script was modified to send information to your database.
The new version would have to be modified accordingly as well. The submit button name should have no bearing as stock UBB has no idea that it is supposed to send the information to your database.
If you have already added the code to send the information to your database from the 6.5 version the only thing I can think of is the routine that does this has changed thus the code would be incompatable and need to be re-written.
I would see if someone can get CC to chime in and confirm if the routine has changed between versions.
Your developer should be able to adjust the script to handle the newer routine pretty easily. If not the only people I know here that have DB experience would be Ian or Brett.
Can you post the code that is used to handle the submition. Also make sure you do not post any actual UBB code so you do not violate your ToU.