Even though I have been a big supporter of the UBB script (and still run a few), FT seems to get very slow and can really drain your server under heavy loads.

Why not convert this board to a PHP data driven board that does not use flat files? They run much faster and FT users might enjoy the improved speed! Most competing board script's like vBulletin offer UBB import tools to bring over all the posts and profiles to keep things running smoothly.

Just my 2 cents for the day......