Will I lose plug-ins and skins with the upgrade?
 

Hi everyone. I'll try and keep the background short. I recently purchased a website where the main function is a vbulletin forum. I had to change hosts, basically cause the old hosts screwed me around. My site is currently running 3.6 and my new host recommended updating to 3.8.3.

I then found out that that vbulletin we had was being leased from the old host. I really don't know what that means (it made me unseasy for sure), but it was news to me. So I immediately bought a vbulletin license to that I could ensure i was on vbulletin legitmately and to be able to upgrade when needed.

Here are my concerns about doing the upgrade. Do I lose the skin for my forum during the upgrade and have it go back to the default setting? I was warned my site may need to be redesigned again with the upgrade.

Also we are running the following add-ons

-FlashChat Integration 2.60
-Members who are using flashchat
-Multiple Login Detector 1.03
-PhotoPlog 2.0.4
-vB Ad Management 2.1
-Yet Another Award System 3.5

would these remain or would I have to add them all back on?


I am a novice at this stuff so answers to these questions would be very helpful. Thanks in advance!