The only was is if Shlomo would restore an older version of the forum. Doesn't he archive the forum every day? One time the forum crashed and two weeks of posts were lost so he started archiving it every day. I think it had to do with affirmative action problems involving the former web host of the JTF domain that caused the crash.
What then, if he could restore an archive... Is it possible to extract just the messages from the archive from LKZ and append them to the current database?
I just set up my own SMF forum at work... I have not spent a lot of time learning how to administer it though. Just set up the various forums and the categories, and added some users...
Wouldn't that be a whole lot of extra work for Shlomo? (It seems he administers the forum and is busy on the creative end.)
Just to restore one members posts. Especially, if they deleted them themselves?
Isn't that different than the whole forum being down and trying to retrieve two weeks worth of forum postings.
I think you should just move forward LKZ.