There is a slight bug in the forum information screen that says Read Only even if you do have write privs.
Do you have telnet access to your domain? If so, then you can use mysql fairly easily by just using the mysql command prompt.
If you use the mysqldump command I wrote in the earlier reply then this will dump your posts table to a file so you can see if the posts are actually being entered into the db.
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