Hi,
Sorry for the trouble with the upgrade.
I was not aware that all of the settings, avatars and some of the signatures would be lost. That was not listed anywhere before I upgraded.
1) For the avatars and the signatures you may need to check your profile. All of the avatars are in the folder but it does not look like they are attached to the forum profile. Some signatures are still place so I'm not sure what happen to the others. To check your forum profile just click on your name while in the forum. Your site profile can be found by clicking your name at the top of most of the CADO pages.
2) Active Topics , My Topics and Most Recent topics should still work as before again you may need to check your profile settings and make sure the old setting were not changed or lost. We did lose the "Read" flag after the upgrade so topics that you had read will show as not read.
3) Links in the body of the message, the only thing you need to do is type it or add it for example: http://www.catadjuster.org will both return a active link just by typing it with no extra work needed.
4) The forums do seem to be slower, this may be related to some setting and I'm checking that out now.
5) "new member" status, again this is a setting and it appears that it went back to the default settings, I believe I just had all them as member, but I do not recall. Suggestions?
6) I cannot go back at this point. sorry
7) I hope to restore all of the prior settings today and maybe this will help.
8) You can get to the "contact us" form in at least four ways, by clicking the word "CADO Help" found just below the menu bar above(9/28 edit -changed "CADO Help" to "Contact Us" today), from the "Home" drop-down on the menu bar select "Contact Us", by clicking the word "CADO" on the menu bar and by selecting the CADO Help page from the drop-down under CADO again on the menu bar.
Sorry for the extra trouble,