I am sure the two previous steps went OK. I checked the results of each step and saw no errors. The whole thing ended up being quite the fiasco. The errors that I experienced wiped out my existing YaBB Gold board, whihc I had to restore from a backup.
I then went on to do a clean install of YaBB SE 1.50, which also caused quite a few headaches. I have had quite a time with this.
I had the new forum setup to e-mail new users a random password, which didn't work well at all. This feature worked great in YaBB SP1 Gold and prevented users from setting up accounts with felonious e-mail addresses. My error log was loaded with people who had registered, but couldn't log in. My Inbox was also loaded with e-mails regarding the same issue.
I also ran into problems with a blank page occasionally upon the initial page load.
At this point I have decided to wait until the next bug fix pack arrives. Then maybe I will give it a shot again. In the meantime I will continue to use YaBB SP1 Gold (unless my web server owner gives me the boot).
This whole fiasco is the result of having to migrate from a Perl script to a MySQL Database.
Anyway, thanks for your response. I really appreciate all the work that the YaBB programmers put into their software
