It sounds like maybe the placeholder user for anonymous posts didn't get added properly. Try running the following 2 SQL commands and let me know the results:
SELECT U_Username FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_Number=1
SELECT U_Number FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_Username LIKE '%DONOTDELETE%'
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