[BradleyT]

Well the functionality can be duplicated for just about any feature that doesn't directly import which is a benefit to doing the initial code. Simply change favorite thread ID to whatever other field you want and the underlying looping, database reading/writing, and name matching code is already done for you. And for username, if you're unsure then you could do a match on username and password before inserting into the VB database.

What I described is really pretty simple (I'd expect someone halfway through an intro to PHP & MySQL class could do it) and shouldn't take a php programmer more than a few hours to get the code down. Then doing any additional field transfers should take an hour or less in modification time. If you do this, remember to set a huge page timeout value since it will take forever to loop through all 100K users.

And just because a thread is archived doesn't mean it's useless as a favorite. Think about the functionality of a favorite and why a person would prefer using it over using a web browser bookmark. Accessable from any computer at any location, doesn't take up any room in a huge list of bookmarked websites, won't be lost when you get a new computer, etc.