Just noticed on the community home page that you have upgraded to smf 1.1.7  don't know if you are aware that a patch has been released to upgrade to 1.1.8  a security flaw was found.  SMF are recommending all users to upgrade.

hope you don't mind me pointing it out

We are aware, thanks... I think it's called Sod's law as I spotted it when I logged in to check that all was going OK with the 1.1.7 upgrade.