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Well, I saw something similar to this at a game I modded. A table used to crash every so often for seemingly no particluar reason. The admin thought the problem might have been some corrupted MySQL libraries, but he was too lazy to re-install it, since we were moving to a new server. We moved and haven't had a problem since
Basically, if this is on a server you control, think about re-installing MySQL and seeing if that helps.

YES! I know what the problem with this is I think!
I had a problem like this on a board of mine. I think the issue was with mod_cache not being configured properly or something along those lines.
I'm taking a look at the HTTP requests and that seems to be exactly what's happening: the action of whatever happened before is being cached and re-played over and over./

And in the area of other odd developments, go manipulation of forms to make it so admins can't read the board!
Obviously, neither of these are very serious (you'd need admin access to do any of them, and hopefully you don't have untrustworthy admins) but are probably worth fixing (if a hacker gets admin, locking out all Guests and then messing up all the group stats would be annoying to say the least: of course, if you have the DB plugin they could do much worse).

Some people "set it and forget it"
Lets take these forums as an example.
There are close to 3500 posters. Lets say Rickard had a giant thread that everyone was supposed to post in once. Imagine the server having to send out over 1k emails every time someone posted.
And subscriptions are already able to be set by the admins

Erm, who said that?
I said the option to auto-subscribe would be a user table thing. I didn't mention the fact that it would have to send all the emails as well.

Here you go

Give us your site URL so we can check it out?

search.php (for last 72 hrs):

FIND

            else if ($action == 'show_24h')
            {
                $result = $db->query('SELECT t.id FROM '.$db->prefix.'topics AS t INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forums AS f ON f.id=t.forum_id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forum_perms AS fp ON (fp.forum_id=f.id AND fp.group_id='.$pun_user['g_id'].') WHERE (fp.read_forum IS NULL OR fp.read_forum=1) AND t.last_post>'.(time() - 86400)) or error('Unable to fetch topic list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
                $num_hits = $db->num_rows($result);

                if (!$num_hits)
                    message($lang_search['No recent posts']);
            }

Replace with

            else if ($action == 'show_24h')
            {
                $result = $db->query('SELECT t.id FROM '.$db->prefix.'topics AS t INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forums AS f ON f.id=t.forum_id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forum_perms AS fp ON (fp.forum_id=f.id AND fp.group_id='.$pun_user['g_id'].') WHERE (fp.read_forum IS NULL OR fp.read_forum=1) AND t.last_post>'.(time() - 259200)) or error('Unable to fetch topic list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
                $num_hits = $db->num_rows($result);

                if (!$num_hits)
                    message($lang_search['No recent posts']);
            }

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=39852#p39852

The first error means you're entering a valid login/pass, but you're not allowed access to that table.
The second means you're entering an invalid login/pass

rofl