[solved] Activating Forum module causes taxonomy illegal offset errors?

Moved my local drupal site to remote server today. Everything was running fine - until I decided to turn on forums.

Now, anytime I try to preview a new story, or any content type with a taxonomy field I get the following error:

    * warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1011.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1012.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1015.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 591.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1011.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1012.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1015.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 591.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1011.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1012.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1015.
    * warning: Illegal offset type in /home/baltimor/public_html/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 591.

The content will still post and the taxonomy will update (I have a taxonomy list appearing in a side bar menu to categorize stories) - but this error message is driving me completely insane.

In addition to the vocabulary automatically created by enabling forums, I am only using 1 taxonomy vocabulary with a total of about 20 terms.

I am new to drupal and am teaching myself, but I have tested this site extensively before uploading. As I mentioned everything was running fine, on both the remote site as well as the local site on my computer, until I enabled the forums module.

Also, to test this I enabled forums on the local machine and am getting the same problem.

This is why I really believe that whatever broke started when I turned on forums.

But who knows.

Further more, on the remote site I disabled forums and deleted the automatically created taxonomy list but "forum topic" still shows up as a content type in my create content menu. It does not show up when I go to admin/content types.

I am running drupal 6.1.2 along with the following contributed modules:
calendar, captcha, cck, date, fckeditor, imce, poor mans cron, taxonomy menu, views, getid3, audio and token

All modules are up to date....

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I've worked so hard to get this thing up and I have no idea how to fix this, other than wiping the slate clean and building the site again from the ground up. (not as bad as it sounds, and if it comes down to it that is what I will do - - - but I would like to avoid it if at all possible)

:(