reviving a somewhat older windows server, have some questions

[provocating]

At this point if it were me, I would backup everything. Install everything from scratch and make sure everything works with a new character, maybe even play a bit to make positive there are no issues. Then I would just create some SQL statements to move the accounts, characters and such over.

[khalathas]

Thanks, I think that's probably what I'm going to do. I've already backed up the database, and then I've gone further and selectively dumped individual tables (or in some cases, just specific data sets from those tables) to sql to restore. Was hoping not to have to do that, but it looks like the changes might be too much to easily just keep jumping upwards by upgrades/revision imports.

I am going to try to just drop the system and keep accounts intact first..unless there have been major changes to those tables as well?

[provocating]

Well the best thing to do is try it. It will tell you pretty quick if there are problems, monitor those error log files.