Ok should have fixed and improved those PHP and CODE bb tags. Let me know (clearly) what / if it's still not ok.
To come back to the fact if I decided or not to choose VBulletin:
- Old code was not possible to maintain anymore. We wasn't able to update the soft, it was in a mixed / bad shape and it didn't do much of what we wanted to add (which is still not completely done here neither).
- Old code required a server just for itself... due to those database connections.
- Having the site on his own means a lot of money to be spent... for what? Do you pay something to visit it? Nope... so how do you think CB / Dabs pay back such hosting?
So to come back to your question, we (admin / owners / super-mods) decided that it could be a good choice to move, between the options we evaluated VBulletin come first also due to the fact we needed some sort of importer for WBB (the old soft).
Going back to the old code means, we loose whatever we did during this week, and we will end up with the old issues again, is it so smart? I don't think so, and I'm not alone in this case. Also it means MWG (whoever payed it) lost 285$ for the VB Suit we are using. Is that smart? Again I don't think so.
So investing a bit of time to make things work doesn't seems such a bad idea, all what I asked is where is the issue, not simply saying "nothing works". Does that takes you hours? Nope... maybe 2 min? Certainly not much more. On my side I invested about 30 hours over the move and the customizations of the new site. Nobody payed me btw.