Here is the error in the admin panel when you click "Edit" sites and then select a category:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function sql_error() in /home/surf/public_html/directory/admin/sites_main.php on line 198

Then it displays the HTML table where the sites would be listed with this:

... Showing 1 - of Sites

And like I said, adding sites from the admin panel or as user generate a page that says the site has been added, but it hasn't..nothing there to validate..no new site in the directory..nada.

It is the old database from the pre-Dew phplinks. I obviously wanted to keep all my sites and not start over, and from PHPAdmin the old database looks just like the new one.

I don't know how to change things with the old databse...I'd need extremely specific step by step instructions to do that. I'm sort of hoping there's just another file or two in Dew PHPlinks that still need tweaking and that you've seen this before.