How many series do you have?  All that step does is update the counts of reviews and the rating for your series.  You could skip ahead to st...

There is no update date stored for the author.  Update information is only stored for the story.  To do what you're asking you'll ...

No, but since it's just your stories in the archive you could set the not-ready stories as not validated then they won't show up.

Edit the browse panel for the challenges module through the admin interface and change the link to be:modules/challenges/browse.php

Did you check with your host?  If it were happening in one specific place I would say it's probably the script, but since it's happenin...

Yeah, that seems to indicate safe mode is on. I would suggest you just change to storing of the text to the database instead of files.

It may be reporting it as CHMOD'd to 777, but the text wasn't saved.  That's almost always either a CHMOD problem or your host has...

Check your panels in your admin area and look for a browse panel for Challenges.  It seems to be missing.

Are you storing your story texts in the database?  This is only applicable to sites storing their stories in the database.  If you're s...

Here's the link to the articles about skinning on my site Jan_AQ spoke of.  One article in particular talks about using an available skin as...

Yeah, I'll have it fixed with the update which I'm hoping to get out soon before life gets crazy again.

I sent a test message to myself from my own website and it worked.  What about other emails from the site?  Are the alerts going out for new...

Try installing and then uninstalling the challenges module.  Seems like it's 1/2 installed for some reason.

I can't replicate this on your site.  I'd suggest you try changing your skin and turn debug off.  My best guess is that you'v...

Validated member only means their story submissions don't have to go through the validation queue.  There's nothing built into eFiction...