Recent Posts - not showing most recent

[thamesvelo]

I have recently converted from YaBB2.1 to SMF 1.1.11 and in the process of tidying anomolies etc.
I have a problem in that the recent posts shortcut .... smfbb/index.php?action=recent starts with a post back in October 2008 when it should be today (Jan 2010).

Has something gone awry with my conversion?  Any advice would be most useful.

[thamesvelo]

The recent.php seems to operate by message id, as opposed to date/time stamp.  The higher the ID, the most recent.
Looks as though during my conversion from YaBB, that the ID numbers generated have not been applied by date/time.  What a mess!

Something to be aware of ... I think I may have to re-attempt the conversion from scratch