Hi Tara, thanks.
I actually tried to restore the db into the version of WP that the backup was made with and it didn't work.
I do not understand the problem, but I have a suspicion that the problem may be that the backup (made in 2007) was on a server using an old version of PHP and since I'm trying to restore it to a server with PHP 5.2 that's causing a problem. Also, maybe the same thing applies to the old MySQL version that I made the backup with...
I'm not sure.
I was wondering if there was some tool which would translate an old db into a version compatible with the latest version of WP and PHP etc.
I'm pretty clueless, but I hope I can restore this somehow.