sorry guys... no one deleted your threads, but i'm not calling you liars or anything.
with the problems i was having like the entire last week with slow loading times, i got my host to move the hosting to a faster server - they did this last nice. unfortunately, if you posted while they were making the change then it's gone. they should have backed up the database one last time before they switched it over but apparently they didn't.
sorry i didn't forewarn you guys - i didn't know when during the day they'd be doing it, and didn't expect to lose any posts/threads anyways. good news though, is the site is running more reliably finally