ok im done with the import.
basically downloaded a new copy of the ubb and importer, set it all up and now I am leaving it untouched for infopop to look at.
I also created a second empty database in case they needed it.
Did I mention that the importer now takes me over 4 hours to run? (this is the 3rd time ive used the new one, each time was about 4 hours. The earlier version finished in about 30 minutes or so.)
I added all this to the support ticket
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I would like to thank all the members of ubbdev.com who have helped me in one of many posts I have everywhere now, to everyone who pm'd me with encouragement and to the admins mods here for their work making this web site what it is.
I posted several how/to articles on the site (thanks JoshPet!) and in the few days the members have had checking out our upgrade (before i deleted the #$)#@ db tonight) they have really started to love the new PTCO. I am in complete agreement.