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It looks like search engines are sending people to the old forum URLs.

Here is an example. This is now a 404 error:
http://forums.ldraw.org/read.php?20,16260,18104

It should redirect to here:
http://forums.ldraw.org/thread-16260-pos...l#pid18104

On apache servers this can be accomplished with mod_rewrite and an htaccess file. The rewrite syntax can capture the old numbers and "rewrite" the URL into the new format. Additionally, the rewrite can serve a 301 response, which tells search engines the resource is at the new location permanently.
The conversion script should have taken care of any links in post but this was on my todo list and got dropped. Thanks for the reminder.