[your24hourstore]

found that it could be done except, if you remove the navbar there will be no way to navigate to the next page even after you log in.

and so the best bet is to make the forum/ where you want to gofrom root after your independent login.

so first can you make a login from php or html or flash or whatever that would once logged in allow you to be redirected to forum/ from root?

if so you should look at index.php in root, see if this is commentted out

// define(VB_RELATIVE_PATH, 'forum');

or does it look like this

    define(VB_RELATIVE_PATH, 'forum');

is there an index.php in the root firectory ? :>