[Lynne]

You want to make the number smaller, like 1. (I think). You need to play with the values there.

Depth of Sub-Forums Use this option to display deep subforums as text links in the parent's forum description area.

For example, if your forums are setup like this:

parent
--child
----child's child

And your forum depth is set to 2 and this setting is set to 3 then you will see the first two forums displayed "fully" on the forum homepage while the level 3 "child's child" forum will appear within the "child" forum's description:

parent
--child
child forum's description.
Sub-Forums: child's child