If you need something from the old board, maybe a web crawler is an option?

[Fireballsocal]

There are services that copy old website pages like this old story of ordering my CR500AF from 2005ish. Perhaps you can find that post you were looking for and thought it was lost. http://web.archive.org/web/20060326235456/http://www.glamisdunes.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=15788

 

[Kick310]

This is cool.