Ok thanks...

For various reasons, I need to move the rewrite code to the .htaccess file of my domain's root instead of my /forums directory.

What can I change the .htaccess rewrite rule to in order for it to work in my root's .htaccess?

Edit: I found this Wiki page of yours: http://www.vbseo.com/wiki/Sitemap:FAQ
I want to make sure that by following those steps, my root's sitemap (which is a WordPress blog) will not be overwritten. In other words, I still want my forum sitemap to be located in the same place it currently is, but I just want the rewrite rules to be specified in the root's .htaccess rather than the forum's .htaccess.

Thanks

You can follow the steps described in wiki, if you have existing .htaccess file, you should just add new rewrite rules to the top of it.

Why does it say "invalid file specified" when I try to update?

thanks for the update, no problems encounter so far

I tried running the generator and got this
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 164434862 bytes) in /home/thecodec/public_html/forumz/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1537

Any ideas?

Ignore the above i turned of the TEXT map setting!

howcome search engines are not downloadnig my sitemap?

Nice an easy install, well done! Now to wait till Google downloads my new robots.txt with the block on the forum removed. Good job!

Something is awry, hopefully with Yahoo, but I wanted to report it here anyway, as if Yahoo changed something in this communication sequence, it impacts the effectiveness of this excellent mod.

The last 2 days, on both vBSEO'd sites and not, the following results are in the SiteMap Generator Report Update email. This is for at least 4 sites that I am managing, all on separate hosts and hosting companies:

Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: FAILED.
Ask ping: Successful.
Moreover ping: Successful.
Live.com ping: Successful.