Not able to login to admin panel

[Dutchmang]

I upgraded to 5.3 and it borked my implementation completely. Probably my fault as I couldn't recall the right paths etc. and got twisted. So I had my hoster restore from backup (VB forums db and /forums/photos directory) but now all my photos are gone. When I log in it doesn't give me any permissions to upload; and when I hit the Admin link it logs me in but brings me back to my user photopost page, not the admin panel.

Looked around here, ran the "bb cookie" query and also turned off the VB 3.5 integration in my config-int.php file.... still no luck. Any suggestions? TIA.

[Chuck S]

How about you post a url so we can check this out and see where you are