Deleting categories

When you delete the Category in the Admin Panel do you get a message to move any Topics that are in the Category? Also after deletion have you executed the Save action?
Might be best to move/delete Topics with the Admin Actions drop box in the first post of a Topic before using the delete Category in the Control Panel.

Hope this helps.

And make sure you hit the 'Save' button after deleting a category.  If you have a lot of categories, it might be at the bottom of the page (you have to scroll down).

I have too many Catergorys... of 2222222222's????? god, i cannot get rid of the buggers.. HELP.

as your forum is private, i cannot see by example.  Do you mean you have a bunch of categories with the name '222222...' that you did not create?  Is it possible another admin of a forum created it for you?