encyclo - 3:05 pm on Oct 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

I've used the patch files successfully in the past: usually it goes fine, but when you get a chunk error, the .patch file is human-readable so you can just go in and make the changes to the code yourself, taking into account the modifications you have already made to that section.

Of course, the patch is really just another modification in the same way as any other. I would like to think that I could recreate the forum with the assembled mod and patch files plus my documentation, but once you have hacked the original install so much, it's probably more important to make 3 dozen backups of the code and store them in multiple off-site locations!