Wait. First of all, I didn’t say that. I said I was not trying to “impress” you and that was a response to your statement that you were “not impressed by my answer”, which you then removed from your post. Again: this makes me sad.
And no matter if you’re impressed or not, if you feel like you got a cold shoulder or not, you said - behind my back - that I “had (my) hands out looking to make money off this migration” which is just not true. And then there is a lot of words from you but you did not address the fact that this is simply untrue. In fact, you repeated it. And “I am sorry you feel that way” is not an apology.
I still think that this is not a bug and I still think there is something up with the way your forums are stored in your database, either something that is plain “wrong” or something that was acceptable in vB3 but not in vB4.
I never asked you to run vB4, I suggested you migrated your database to it and then run it through the importer. True “unix-style” where you pipe multiple steps to get to the desired outcome - IMHO the shortest and cheapest migration path.