Okay, strange. I still get differing counts, after running both scripts. (Only one found a wrong count, not in the board I was expecting.)
If you look at my forums setup (not the best, I know. I'm NOT a designer..!)
here, Go to "General", then look for the post "The Webmaster Chuckles Evilly..". In index it shows 19 replies. View the thread, and only 14 are found.
Time to get down and dirty with the database, I'm fraid. Muhaha.
Me.
[Edit: Found the issue. Because that one user account got trashed and taken out of the table, none of the "B_PosterId" fields got updated. Since they were pointing to an invalid "U_Number" in the _Users table, they were getting skipped, but being counted in the index page. If anyone is interested (and since I actually haven't oeefered anything back to ThreadsDev yet..) I can make this into a small script to add onto the Admin menu, similar to the two utilities that were offered me earlier..]