Well I have managed to screw up the 7.x-8 upgrade as much as humanly possible. The only saving grace is that I have a backup of my original database.
I had error reports from the access_update.asp file, but I still went ahead and removed all 7x files from the server and upgraded to 8. Then I was having trouble editing the database_connection.asp, so I just moved the database into the new folder, and it conflicted with the database on the server, blah blah, and after moving everything around due to frustration I have no f'ng clue where to go.
I am willing to pay for the link removal key again if it will save me the time and frustration of figuring out what went wrong. So, I have my 7x database (dforumb.mdb) - is there an easy way to install the new 8 full version, connect it to my previous database, then pay for the link removal key again? Any suggestions would be great, thanks.