[thincom2000]

The only reason I can see that this wouldn't be compatible with vbSEO out-of-the-box so-to-speak is because vbSEO is not familiar with the URLs it uses. But it's an extremely simple modification of the forumdisplay and showthread vbSEO modules in order to make it work. I do not own or use vbSEO, so I cannot post any updated modules myself.

All you would have to do is add your news.php to the forumdisplay.php rules and shownews.php to the showthread.php rules, since essentially the URLs are the same and there is just a filename difference.