[Michael Morris]

I'm sorry - pre morning coffee post, or something like that. Anyway, I prepare large business CMS sites for a living. One of the reasons I want to move to Joomla as a CMS for my vbulletin boards is to unify my component work load and get more reuse out of me code. Every CMS I've built for a company though has always been with a custom style designed for them by a design firm. At the end of the day I found it was easier to replace Joomla's "template" engine with patTemplate (a move Joomla itself is doing in version 1.5). Translating templates from patTemplate to vbulletin is about 2 minutes work or less / template -- in other words it's a piece of cake.

Grafting vbulletin to an existing Joomla site would be a pain since there is no user import feature at present. Most companies though don't need a forum package as full featured as vbulletin so Simpleboard or Fireboard for Joomla will probably serve them well enough.

Again, this is primarily meant as "joomla as an addon for vbulletin" rather than the other way around. I could write it the other way, but I believe that waiting for 1.5 for such a product release is probably more realistic.