...it was a copy glitch when moving the board to a new server, or backing it up or something, waaay back. And apparently the only way to fix them is manually going through and deleting the duplications. A boring, thankless, error prone in itself, nearly pointless task. I've done several threads myself, countless posts. Usually when an ancient one like this is resurrected, sometimes when I find one while searching for old info. Ah well, it can't all be glorious gun play and dueling with spammers

Sometimes it's just old fashioned sweeping up after. Check back here shortly and revel in the uncluttered, deredundized, slimmed down threadiness.