I think I can get this thing to work with my site layout... Just need to customize some of the templates and disable column blocks, but all in all it's something I can finally work with.

Thanks to everyone for the help. Thanks for bearing with me kicks, and kudos to wajones for creating vBPortal and for that VERY nifty autoinstall and great customization features... you just made my Friday


p.s. Oh, one question tho - how do I have the root domain automatically redirect to my forums? Like, if they typed in "www.opentechsupport.net" they will be redirected to "www.opentechsupport.net/forums" instantly ... tried it once with the meta refresh=o but it disables the back button, and some users hate that ... thanks again