Neat  Thank you Oldiesmann, I'm sure someone will find this very useful should they find themselves in the same position. 

And thanks for switching to TP as well. 

Just moved a site I'm hosting from EhPortal to TP and the members wanted shoutbox history imported as well, so I wrote a script to do that. Figured I'd share it here in case anyone else wants to do that. Note that this was run on 2.1. If you're on 2.0, you should be able to remove the "$smcFunc['db_select_db']" line and also change "inet_ntop($results['member_ip'])" to just "$results['member_ip']" (this is needed due to differences in how the data is stored in 2.1 vs 2.0)


<?php
include_once('SSI.php');
$smcFunc['db_select_db']('your_database');


$query = $smcFunc['db_query']('', 'SELECT shout.id_shout, shout.id_member, shout.member_name, shout.log_time, shout.body, mem.member_ip FROM {db_prefix}sp_shouts AS shout
INNER JOIN {db_prefix}members AS mem ON (mem.id_member = shout.id_member)', array());


$shouts = array();


while($results = $smcFunc['db_fetch_assoc']($query))
{


$shouts[] = array(
$results['id_shout'],
$results['body'],
$results['log_time'],
'shoutbox',
'<a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=profile;u='. $results['id_member'] . '">'. $results['member_name'] . '</a>',
inet_ntop($results['member_ip']),
$results['id_member']
);

}


 $smcFunc['db_insert']('insert', '{db_prefix}tp_shoutbox', array('id' => 'int','value1' => 'string','value2' => 'string', 'type' => 'string', 'value3' => 'string', 'value4' => 'string', 'value5' => 'string'), $shouts, array('id'));


?>

I've no idea, I've never had that option checked before lol
I downloaded TP from here
Anyway, thanks again guys, I love TP 

My forum link

Not sure about the version I've had it that long, I'd say from over a year ago?

Have looked under topics and it has "Forum-topics and articles - sorted on date" ticked

EDIT: I've sorted it, thanks for pointing out where I needed to look 

Random posts? Maybe you set the frontpage tp show topics?

Check the setting under Tinyportal > Settings , frontpage : what to display on frontpage...

Can you share a link to your forum?