No, I want to be able to display them like if I was on the homepage. How can I do that? I know it's possible somehow.

Copy the php code from the forum.php file and copy the needed template/html from the FORUMHOME template into your custom template.

I don't want all the forums displayed though, only my VIP forums.

Then modify the php code to only show those forums.

So i have finally gotten the hang of working with this type of page haha.. Thanks Lynn.

My question is Is there away to use say a contact form created on a custom page to send a pm to a couple hard coded users and also to post in a specified section of the forums?

"Not the original Contact Us Form from VB"

Of course there is, but you have to code it yourself and I don't have that code handy to just copy/paste it for you. If you need help with that, you should post in the Programming forum with the code you have already written and the problem you are running into.

This may have been covered, but will the Search (and Advanced Search) features work in these new pages?

If not, is there a way to configure this to have it work?

It will work as far as you may still search posts. But, the information on these pages will not be searchable unless you do something to make them so. (Not anything that is covered in this tutorial.)

Thanks for your response. What would that "something" be :)

If this is not the place for that, where would such a question be posted?

That something would be to write some code to index the text in the search_core (and other) tables. You would probably need to create a new contenttype in the contenttype table in order to index it correctly. If you are unsure how to do this, then you should post in the main vB4 General Discussions forum. You should probably have a little bit of php experience if you are going to write this code.