he would be seeing the errors from the old board. Maybe there was errors and then they changed servers so he is having dns issues.
Well what I'm saying is becuase he's seeing that PHP error then its definatly connecting to the server and the servers connecting fine back to him to relay the error back. But after reading through that quite a few times (lol), I think I may know what you were trying to say, so yeah, I guess its a possibility.