Importing member user name passwords

I downloaded the mograting tool but since I did not have  an earlier version of 6.34 I decided to try to migrate a databse 7.01 to 7.6 and followed the procedure as mentioned in migration tool read me.

When I ran the migrating tool it came up with a dialogue box asking for a parameterer value. I tried -1 and that did nothing but when I used 1 it processed then came up with an error 0.

When I looked at the new database it had the users name and passwords transferred from the 7.01 database and all encrypted.

This seems to work but I havent tried to open the forum etc yet.

Can anyone of you who knows whats going on in this process say whether the migrating tool will work ok in this instance???

If it does, then everyone can move large databse rtecords of user names/passwords into a temp database and then migrate them to a real databsae as encrypted users.

And what happens to any original data and posts in the original database?

If I wanted to start with a new customer list each year but keep the forum categories etc are they unchanged?

You misunderstand what I am trying to say Borg. Or rather, I am probably not explaining myself clearly enough.

This sis what I am trying to do.

I have alist of 1000 user names and passwords from an external database. I wish to insert these records into your forum database but the passwords are not encrypted and they need to be. Also, I plan to change the user names at yearly intervals and put them into diferent groups within the forum.

So each year I plan to import the user name and password list from external database and then place them into yopur database then migrate them into the final database as encrypted user name passwords.

My problem is to get them imported to the database encrypted.

(It is a school based list of names and they are bing matched to teachers so each forum can be for a class and teacher)