A few of questions:
QUESTION 1: First, will it be possible to use the current theme as found in 2.0 RC1-2 if the new Curve theme is just not liked once we get it on our forums (like will we be able to go to the adm panel and just select the old one and away we go, back to what used to be in terms of theme, but with RC2's other features working in the new way)? Second, will the old theme files remain as they are, or will they be altered by the upgrade?
QUESTION 2: Will adding our copyright to Curve be as easy as in the current 2.0 RC1-2 version?
QUESTION 3: Will there be any improvements to the webinstall.php to help with the upgrade? I've never, ever been able to get the webinstall.php to work for me once (for installs or upgrades), but Filezilla works flawlessly and installing manually always works with no errors whatsoever. Neither 1.1.10 or 2.0 RC1-1 would install with webinstall, and I could not get an upgrade to RC1-2 to work either (I'm always told the folder does exist, but obviously, an already existing forum does exist, or if I use the same information that I use with Filezilla which always works, I'm told my sign-in information is wrong though it's what I use with Filezilla, or, again alternately, I'm told the folder doesn't exist, round and round -- just frustrating circles which arrive nowhere, and I don't know why but I feel I'm knowledgeably giving the information requested, but I always give up and do a manual install that always works the very first time). I know I saw comments that there may be issues with the webhost related to webinstall, but what about an alternate script being made for those of us who cannot ever seem to get traditional webinstall to download files? This alternate script (perhaps called something like insiteinstall.php) might depend on the files being uploaded by us with our own ftp program (perhaps the original downloaded zip) and then the insiteinstall.php could tuck all the files into their right places as needed (this bypasses the upload problem and it might work as an alternative for those few of us who seem to have webhost upload issues, if that's why we have problems). I bring this up here, since I read in this thread that this upgrade will be a considerable effort, and since I have a multiple of SMF forums, I don't look forward to a multiple of tedious manual upgrades (though I'm committed enough, I would rather use my time working on using my forums, instead of under the hood working with files).
QUESTION 4: Will the database be left unchanged by this upgrade?