Well, good news. The old founders of FileFront before it was engulfed into chaos by Ziff Davis Media has bought back the filefront networks. FileFront is now owned by people that actually play the games, and have a little more ‘down to earth’ feel and will probably offer much more flexibility to admins and such. they had little control before, and really the volunteer admins run most of the site anyway so its only natural that well respected people be given such respect
So with pleasure I announce that you do NOT need to back up files, they are still there, and that FileFront will now turn over to new management and I hope it appeals. 