Let me tell you the entire saga, so that you have what to laugh about:

So I decide to move to phpBB standalone. I go and read something (BTW not many things about it) .. this site has again helped. And the phpBB community articles too.

So ... I empty the phpBB tables I need to in the fresh system and mod the nukebb_ tables to fit the new extension. Not hard anyway ...

BUT ... since my connection was crappy I had to submit the queries part bu part ... not too many since it wouldn;t make the changes. After 2 hours of populating the phpBB_users and phpbb_post and post texts I managed to have the posts and members sent to the new DB. Well, I was proud.

After that I saw I was MODERATOR on my forum, although I have installed and had amdin privileges. I find out Nuke was incrementing the numbers. For phpBB annonymous is -1, user is 0, admin is 1 and mod is 2. Since Nuke made everything bigger with one I was MODERATOR on my forums and ALL members were ADMINS

So ... took me some time to get the permissions rigth ASAP and since I was too lazy to look for the script I manually updated the permissions in phpmyadmin.

Started the modding at 18 in the evening and finished at 4 in the morning

Gonna tell you more ..