Its nothing to do with you or your connection paulmort. Its all at the server end. The message boards connect to an sql database, thats where all the forum information is stored. When it throws up the "database connection error" it just means it could not connect to the database. As has been stated in a few threads the webteam are on the case trying to sort out the problem, bless their little cotton socks.
/me reminds himself never to host anything with webfusion
[Edited on 26-4-2004 by Desmodromic]