I have heard of e107 but I am not very familiar with it. Have you tried asking over at their support forums if someone would be interesting in bridgin...

An easier way to delete the spam is through phpMyAdmin as opposed to manually if you want to give that a try.

Even if it's saved as .txt you can usually just copy and paste the contents in through phpMyAdmin.

Did you try deleting stories/adding them through the database or something?

If you add another story, does the count change? Did you maybe delete stories through your database? When did this start happening? It would help us a...

What if you try changing where your stories are saved? Maybe switching them to the database (see under your settings).

There are many sites that offer free web hosting, you just have to make sure that whatever hosting you choose, that it meets the requirements for eFic...