Hi Marco,
Thanks for replying. I didn't think the original poster would respond, but thought it was worth a shot. Especially since some time had passed - I was of the thinking that if he did respond then there's a fair chance he might have got somewhere with this.
I have been reading a couple of other threads (the best one
here) which seems to go above and beyond what I need and so my hope is alive to get close to this.
Either networking the forums themselves or connecting them similar to the nntp newsgroup gateway hack.
fingers crossed