Actually, a forum being an add-on is the minority of forum sites. Most are just forums with other stuff tacked on to it.
As for your question, it really depends on how your current setup works. For my setup I have all my additional site areas pull there information from the vBulletin database. This way I only have one user member area to manage for the entire site. Not sure if your site could be setup to work the same way, but it is something to think about.
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