forum upgrades tonight - 5/2

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i'm planning on upgrading the forum tonight. this will be a mostly back-end upgrade, meaning if everything works out fine, you will not notice many differences. there will be some minor cosmetic changes, but all for the better, trying to make things easier around here. all of this is en route to getting the main site going, finally, which i hope to do within the next two weeks.

effect of forum upgrades will be that this site will be inaccessable for awhile. when it comes back up, there may be some glitches. i will start a thread in the support forum for you to post these observations.

thanks!!!