Well when I went back to the forum index, the forum was gone. Only the logo & links to Private messages & Admin CP remained.
SOO... feeling fortunate that I had the forsight to make a backup, I went to CPanel and uploaded the tar file... and CPanel decompressed it into a new directory but didn't fix anything! I've never had to restore a backup, and assumed it would overwrite everything on the server. Instead, I have over 100mb of stuff I don't even know what to do with...
What am I missing? I've never had to do this, and I'm sure I followed proceedure... I assumed the full backup would overwrite all the files on the site. Instead it added over 150mb to the server and fixed nothing. I am at a total loss here...