Folks,
On LR.com, we have Joomla (main site), Simple Machines (forum), Coppermine (gallery), and they're all driven by a MySQL database and PHP code. All those things need to play well together.
Sooooo.... the Forum needs a major upgrade that I'm planning to do very carefully and methodically between Christmas and New Year's. Maybe a couple days downtime. It's because the PHP got changed, and the forum can't handle it.
Last night, I was nibbling around the edges, seeing what I could safely accomplish now. Blew that one, and I apologize all over the place for messing up the forum. It's back now, and will stay that way until the upgrade.
Bob the Web Elf