Just a quick update on the situation: merging the backup of the forum before it got borked with the current forum database leads to database corruption. So not all the threads can be recovered. However, since the HowTos section has had very little activity since this incident, all the howtos (except for two) can be recovered without can be recovered without causing database havoc.
They will be restored soon, so please don't post anything new in the current howtos section until the old ones are back
