And the puzzle is solved!

And the puzzle is solved! I finally realized what happened with the database ... back in the day when I made the news script update using databases, I created a script that would take all the .txt's and put them into the database. so basically it traversed the directory the files were kept and if they had the proper requirements (username, email, text) then they were added to the database with the same fields. only extra catch was that it would also add a user id, which was found by just looking up the username in the users database. Alright, so outside of being technical now, I realized that when the post page stopped working, I found a page that I didn't know what it did. So I just sorta ran the script. Nothing happened. Well, something HAD happened, it had run that old script that converted the texts to database. So basically, any entry that ever WAS stored by text got added to the database a second time, after the last post on the site. So that post about XP happened to be the last post to ever use the text storing method. So now, I've gone back and erased all the entries that were added that shouldn't have been. Everything is back to normal, and the good thing is that the news posting script works. Hurray! Hopefully the sporkops will start posting again. Now if only I could figure out why the poll script doesn't work ...

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