Please, please help

Hi,

I'm in desperate need for your help. You'll understand why in a few moments.

I don't know exactly which version of the forum I have installed on my server; the archives are mostly from May, 2006. I guess it's 8 point something. I've been using webwizforum for a long, long time as you can see.

On Firefox, the statistics are:
936.840 messages in 4.275 threads in 32 forums
6.689 Members

And on IE:
434.199 messages in 3.563 threads in 30 forums
6.689 members

I don't know why the difference between browsers, but that's not the problem.

The problem is... the forum is slow. Very, very slow. And it's been presenting error messages all the time. And the messages differ all the time. Sometimes it's

Server Error in Forum Application

An error has occured while writing to the database.

Please contact the forum administrator.

Support Error Code:- err_SQLServer_getUserData()_update_last_visit

File Name:- functions_login.asp

Error details:-

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server

Timeout expired

And sometimes it's:

Server Error in Forum Application

An error has occured while writing to the database.

Please contact the forum administrator.

Support Error Code:- err_SQLServer_save_new_post_data

File Name:- new_post.asp

Error details:-

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server

Timeout expired

Or:

Database timeout errors like these are very rare with the SQL Server version and usually points to server and/or network issues with either overloaded SQL Server or slow network connection issues. You should contact your host about these issues.

If you use SQL Server 2005 or 2008 you should certainly upgrade to the latest 9.54 release which would improve performance immensely for larger SQL Server forums.

As long as you remove the new database fields that this mod created you will be able to upgrade to 9.54, as it did not comply with mod rules and place MOD infont of any database changes coursing issues with upgrades.

The only way to know would be to either search through the version 8 forums or have a look at the mod you used and see what fields it created.