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I installed a new site yesterday here:
http://www.bemont.net/forum/index.php

I used the Woofie theme. (for past version but apparently okay

Now anyone who tries to post, etc. gets a message "Authorization code mismatch. Are you accessing this function correctly? Please go back and try again."

I see similar threads and the advice is to overwrite non-important files that I previously uploaded -- but I am not experienced enough yet to know exactly which files I can and cannot overwrite.

How do you advise that I proceed with this?

Read following thread properly and then perform instructions to your theme:
http://community.mybboard.net/thread-282...#pid190136

(2008-07-31, 12:28 PM)DragonFever Wrote: [ -> ]Read following thread properly and then perform instructions to your theme:
http://community.mybboard.net/thread-282...#pid190136

Thank you, clearly that is the thread I needed, not all the others which were probably discussing exceptions to those directions.

That thread says:
"If you are getting "Authorisation Code Mismatch," chances are you just are upgrading to MyBB 1.2.12 but have forgotten to run the upgrader script. Please follow the instructions on [Wiki: Upgrading]. If you are running a custom theme, you may need to go to Admin CP --> Templates --> Find Updated and manually make the changes to your templates after you run the upgrader."

My version check, of course, shows that I am up to date. (I only installed yesterday ) However, under Admin CP --> Templates --> Find Updated I found that most of my installed themes had a great deal that was out of date.

Here I was less certain how to proceed -- each item listed gave the choices of edit, revert, diff... I manually chose "edit" for each item, but did and when I went back to Admin CP --> Templates --> Find Update I saw that there was nothing left to update, which was reassuring... Many of the themes now work, but, unfortunately, not my beloved Woofie.

Can I assume that this one is just too far out of date to rescue without expert intervention?

no, your theme just missed the my_post_key values.
I would like to advice you that.
use the find updated tool, whene any posting template appear (like newthread templates/newreplay, etc)
compare the original with your customized one, thene re-do your changes to the original (with keeping the updated variables) and save it.