I seem to have lost the ability for my Moderators to ban unruly users from the forums. Where did the Admin Panel for Moderators dissappear to with 6.5? I see they still have thread management capabilities but no Admin link (now the control panel)

There is no admin panel for moderators in 6.5.

If you enable them - they can edit users and thus remove their permissions (ban them) but there were bugs with that in some versions of the beta.

go look for my more mod power mod for 6.5 in the mod section I rewrote it for mods to get those and more powers

ahh grand thankyou