Hitetsu said:
Sidenote for people that are familiar with phpbb: I'm using an older version of phpbb, due to phpBB 3.x being complete and utter crap.
Thanks for the information that I still have no clue about, but at least I understood it better than Dinarii's post above yours.
I quoted this because I have a feeling that this might be a problem. See, if Programers have any sense at all, and can make money/increase their namesakes at all, there would be a timer for every program they ever made.
Say for example, xxx.exe program can do a job. The programer of xxx.exe knows that he will have a newer version of the program, and it will increase his sales/namesake if more people download the newer version, so he places a timer on the xxx.exe program to stop working if the computer's clock ever read February 1st, 2009 or later. That way, I give myself pleanty of time to make a newer update (even if the update just makes the timer go to February 1st, 2010) and still have to make people, or incourage them strongly, to update to the new version of xxx.exe file.
That might be the solution of your problem, which in this case, would mean you have to upgrade to the newer system.
At least, this is what I would do/done if I was a programer. That way, as long as people are satisfied with my product, they would
have to keep downloading my product (regardless if I make money or not, which I believe the programer would have to make money, I mean, who would do all that work without any reward?).