It just dawned on me that you shouldn't be surprised if a few mods (like the spoiler feature) aren't working at the moment. That's because I haven't reinstalled them yet...
The counts on the forum that were lost in those 18 days might be mostly recoverable. Our host didn't lose those tables in the database. But it's just that I haven't gotten around to checking that out yet...
Our Smiley's are back! And even though it's not fall yet, I've already changed the posting page over to pumpkins. If they can already be selling pumpkins in the local farmer's markets around here, we can have pumpkin smileys.
Plus, the Halloween theme will be showing up in a little over two weeks, so the pumpkins will give us a small taste of what's to come...
The Midnight Storm theme seems to be working, so at least we can get back to the forum looking the way it should if not completely acting the way it should yet...
It may just be that the forum's old cookie needs to be cleared from our browsers so that it can be replaced by a new cookie - but I haven't tested that theory because there are more pressing things to get done around here.