Soyuz,
I just made those changes in the database in members table from phpadmin. No code changes were necessary.

You da man! I didn't realize ID 1 had to be the Guest entry, I had it as my admin (that's what it was on the forum I converted). Thanks a bunch!

Actually there are no 3s in the user database. Some how people posted (evidently in smf) without registering and they became 1s. But I deleted those postings. I do notice that on another board I have a guest entry in users, but on this one I do not. I'll try duplicating this record.

After using the converter to convert a smf forum, guests now seem to have administrative privledges. I used the converter for postnuke php board and did not experience this problem. There must be a way to fix this, but I can't find it.