Really.
It looks like we've a fix for the SQL/vBulletin that does not involve upgrading the entire forum structure: your control panel now functions again, and all it required was two carefully-inserted parentheses, rather than a time-consuming and potentially catastrophic* database rehaul. That's something that we'll have to do at some point, but there are other priorities that come before it.
Being uh, priorities and all.
*Likelihood of catastrophe may be overstated for sake of



