My only criticism is that there's no continuity between information that's being input to this board now, and information that was/is archived, particularly when doing searches.

One needs to do two searches to aquire information, assuming one knows that the subject archive containing the information exists to begin with.

I don't have any suggestions as I don't know enough about the structure of these boards to suggest one.

Perhaps there's a better way recover this wealth of info?

Good point. I hope they are able to bring back all the information that was here before

I will likely later on add a search option to "search archives".... First I have to fix a million other little things . GOod point though for me to remember!