"...list of things that ... are absolutely necessary..."
AS IF you didn't know this..., the forums with all the messages. This is the *best* resource on the site.
"...but the bboard messages are not yet converted over."
It would be nice to know how you do the conversion from 3.x to
4.5 as I am sure others and myself will *eventually* convert
to 4.5. It will be great to see openacs.org running on 4.5 so
one can get a good sense of the newer version and have it create
the desire to convert.
-Bob