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you removed the English folder in /langs/

Have you emptied PunBB's cache folder after updating the base url ?

Administration > Options

Maintenance mode yes, same as for 1.2
The maintenance tab in the config is what you are talking about and is a different thing

When you open phpMyadmin, , click on your database name in the left menu, it should siplay a list of the tables in the right frame.
At the bottom of the list, click on Check All then select Repair table in the dropdown list.

The 2nd one is the one I have used, just set the default status of the categories to hidden

There is a mod on PunRes to collapse categories

That's because the readme of this mod asks to replace a piece of code in which you have the logout links at step 11. As the logout link has been change in 1.2.17 and this mod was written before, it makes you replace the logout part with a no longer valid code.
You just have to replace login.php?action=out&id='.$pun_user['id'].'
by login.php?action=out&id='.$pun_user['id'].'&csrf_token='.pun_hash($pun_user['id'].pun_hash(get_remote_address())).'

If you have not tried punBB yet how can you suggest anything, as Smarties wrote, most of your remarks have nothing to do with punBB

That's quite right

latin1_swedish_ci

To be honest, we don't care, looking at the way you speak / write and expect everybody to be your mate. They have a business to run, they do not have time to waste with trolls