Probably the easiest way is to have your system admin create a test forum and then rename your real forum db tables and field names to the names that show up in the test forum. I should add that this was the case for me after doing an export a couple years ago of a database and may not be the case in your situtation but it should be fairly easy to look at and find out if that is causing your errors. It also may be of help if you post the actual errors that you have. I did an import from a windows box to a linux box a couple years ago and the name errors were the only problems that I had.
