Beyond the Void.

Ok here is my sad little tale.

LONG VERSION
I had a msg board that was running 2.0.3 (Yes I know I am a bad admin for this ) and it was running just fine. I did a forum back up on 3/28/05 and then a few days later my message board started coming up as a plan blank screen. It has done this sort of thing before but normally for just a day, so I wait.

Well after a few days I write a ticket to my ISP, after about 2 weeks my ISP (Host Department) replies back. They then reload the msg board software wiping out my board, making it all shiny and new on v2.0.13. I could have done that... Anyhow I go to reload from my back up, and when I do it goes back to that blank white screen. So I reload the msg board from scratch.

I start talking to the ISP again and they said the did an upgrade (I got not warning of this) and that since phpBB was a third party program they couldnt help me. They also told me that I would be unable to use my back up because of the version difference. Then told me that I would have to fix it myself.

I am in the process of firing this ISP, btw.


SHORT VERSION
ISP loaded 2.0.13 on a 2.0.3 board
Forum broke (blank white screen)
Can not reload backup of structure and content to 2.0.13


Thats my problem. Possible solutions I have thought might work...
-Reloading a 2.0.3 boord, apply backup, upgrade version by version until current.
-Parse backup file to get needed content.
-Run some sort of conversion program on the backupfile to get things working.