If all else fails... could always move to
www.ezboard.com or someplace similar...
There are a lot of pop-ups... but if you go to
www.panicware.com and get their pop-up stopper then you don't ever see them. Or with a few donations you can upgrade to "gold status" and get rid of the ads... There are a few heavy traffic sites up on there like the RiceCop forum for example...
We would lose the archives that we currently have of course, but its better than nothing.
An example is this crappy board I created one day when I was bored:
http://pub59.ezboard.com/bptaaronsworld