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Thanks for the suggestion Dark. Unfortunately, still no joy though. Everything seems fine with the exception of not being able to log-in as admin. I hunted through the phpbb.com forums and found that several others are having the same problem. The wizards there haven't been able to find what the cause is yet. So as a warning to others, just be aware that if you upgrade to phpBB 2.0.16 right now, you may lose the ablility to administer your forum. When (if!?) I find a fix to the ACP log-in problem I'll post it here.

Hi Dark, No mods at all, but I have managed to shed some light on the subject and suspect I'm not the only one having problems. (Upgrade was from 2.0.11 to 16) I normally use Frontpage which doesn't help much where php script is concerned. So I tried using Dreamweaver to open the viewtopics.php file and it showed there was a syntax error of some sort on line 1110. I'd downloaded a complete phpbb 2.0.16 zipped file from phpbb.com and it would seem some of them contain errors, because when I downloaded from their secondary server, unzipped and then uploaded to my site, the Viewtopic problem was fixed. But alas, I still can't log in to the admin panel... IE still returns a "This page cannot be displayed" error and curiously Firefox 1.0.4 still redirects to microsoft.com. Since I have (I hope!) backed all the data, guess I'll try deleting the phpbb folder and try a fresh install. Thanks again for the suggestions and to Don for the PM.

Sure Thumper. It's the standard phpBB viewtopic.php file - no modifications: 1110 $message = str_replace('\"', '"', substr(@preg_replace('#(\>(((?>([^><]+|(?R)))*)\<))#se', "@preg_replace('#\b(" . str_replace('\\', '\\\\', addslashes($highlight_match)) . ")\b#i', '<span style=\"color:#" . $theme['fontcolor3'] . "\"><b>\\\\1</b></span>', '\\0')", '>' . $message . '<'), 1, -1)); 1111 } 1112 Have copied lines 1110, 1111 & 1112 above. (line 1112 has no content.) Regarding the "jump" to microsoft.com that I mentioned earlier when trying to view /phpBB/admin/index.php - I found this is a quirk of Firefox. IE shows the "This page cannot be displayed" message. I've verified that the file does exist on the server. Would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks very much Folks and thatnk you too for the welcome messages. Some progress, but still a glitch! Don, yes I carried out the first 4 steps, but not the 5th. Have just loaded the "update_to_latest.php" page as per Thumper's suggestion and the database updated ok - no errors. (Have since deleted in /install/ folder.) The default forum page now loads ok, but when I try to log in to the admin panel, I'm taken to www.microsoft.com! Also, trying to view any of the previous posts from the default pages returns an error like this: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/***/public_html/phpBB/viewtopic.php on line 1111 Hope someone can make sense of this! Thanks guys.

Hi Folks, Tried updating today on one of my sites but something has gone awry. I used the 2.0.11 to 2.0.16 updated files but am now receiving the following error on the default forum page: ====================== phpBB : Critical Error Error creating new session DEBUG MODE SQL Error : 1054 Unknown column 'session_admin' in 'field list' INSERT INTO phpbb_sessions (session_id, session_user_id, session_start, session_time, session_ip, session_page, session_logged_in, session_admin) VALUES ('3b737aa0f87d5db19a24fd4746c34980', -1, 1120404779, 1120404779, '559a0201', 0, 0, 0) Line : 172 File : sessions.php ====================== The upgrade instuctions say that "You should now run install/update_to_latest.php" but am not sure how to do this. Would much appreciate any guidance. Thanks