I'm not sure how long it was on for, but I apologise for the downtime you may have experienced for the past hour or two. Or three. I honestly don't know how long it was.
I didn't want to waste the money the users donated for myself
Sorry but that is just a sad excuse seeing as you could have easily gave them their money back
Not true. Paypal takes away money, so we didn't have as much money as was donated. If we gave the money back, people wouldn't get all of their money back.
The only way I can think of removing the captcha is doing it in the admin CP. Tbh, I don't like the captcha anyway so that's what I would end up doing.
By the way, hopefully soon we'll allow members to send in their own themes to be placed on the site... You'll have to follow a list of guidelines and will likely have to agree to something saying we can use/distribute your theme in any way... and you'll need the theme to be 100% original. I don't know how far we'll be able to go with this- suggestions?