I've been able to keep in touch with some core group while trying to rectify with Demo the breakage on Slackhaven.com, but what happened:

Last Monday we got together to move things over to my info (contact/payment/etc) with the Slackhaven host, MyHosting.  I was on the horn with them for about two hours getting everything done, with occasional Q's fired Demo's way, in case he already had credentials for one feature or another.  I was able to connect to the FTP and start downloading site data locally so I'd have backups of that, and not just phpBB forum backups.  (One of which I made immediately prior.)

For some reason, I was unable to get a SSH connection running to the server back-end (called Plesk) even though I could log into the Web administration panel just fine.  They initiated a ticket to take a look at that (so I could get more direct backups.  I like backups.) and I hung up with them.  I was going to post an update thread on the forum, when I noticed the front page SQL breakage.

I called MyHosting back to add this to the issues.  As far as I know, I wasn't even able to access the section that could cause this breakage--that's all on the far back end, where only their tech was looking around to read me off information.  Tech passed back a tier to further MyHosting technicians, and they were working on it for a few days.  They came back saying "we dunno," and "there are no backups of the board" but there IS some manner of backup within the Plesk environment.  Unfortunately, I have no idea how that shirt works and have to go with them.  And if it's, like, a daily auto-backup that does no good anyway, as it would have already re-auto-backed-up the forum in its broken condition the next day.  

It's possible it's a working restore point, but I'd REALLY like to get manual backups of the SQL databases first.  I don't know how, yet, and haven't had the time to work with them yet.  (Server swinger projects and techs on vacation is making my last and current week kinda hell.)  I am in touch with Demo, but his availability is scattershot as well.

I am hoping we can get something rolling.  If the MyHosting environment is borked, I will at least try to set up a clean phpBB and import the board backups I was making.  Hopefully Plesk still has something within it so that we don't have to go that far, or this is a repairable issue.

My problem is my ability to work with websites is around 1%.  The only thing I was going to do is sit in Slackers in its current condition, learn the environment, make a plethora of backups, and see what adjustments could be made to lower the maintenance cost.

But this MyHosting fuckup kinda forced my hand at doing anything the easy way.

urgl...

fun times