Customizable captcha, and replies with dates?

Hi!

I have a few questions:

1) People in my guestbook have been complaining about long captcha codes. Sometimes it's 7 characters long, so my first question is: Is is possible to reduce the number of characters shown in the captcha image?

2) Also, a few people asked me if there is a way to add dates to replies so they can see when the reply was posted. How can I do this?

I'll appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance.

I suspect that your database location in config.inc.php is something like db.hostname.com and so you are still connecting to the old hosts database.