[Sparkz]

I am not affiliated with vBulletin other than as a regular customer, but I'll have a crack at your questions.

I am sure there are plenty of people that will correct me if I say something wrong.

Originally posted by LancelotGr
[B]Ok my questions are:

If i use any of the "hacks", is this legal? I mean its allowed from the Vbulletin team or its not and therefore i will loose my support?

Yes, it is legal. Support for hacks is usually found here, and a fair few of the vBulletin developers also frequent this forum.

If i pay for the Owned LIcense, which i found it very cheap, i will not have to pay again every year?

No, the owned lisence lets you run vBulleting indefinately. However, you will have to pay an additional $30 for continued access to the members area at vbulletin.com, where you can download upgrades.

How easy is to install the hacks? I tried to go in one of the hacks forums to see whats going on but it didnt let me as i havent bought the program. Is any other place where i can see some hacks?

The difficulty involved in installing a hack depends very much on the nature and complexity of the hack, as well as your own knowledge of PHP/MySQL/vBulletin.

If we have some ideas of things that we want to create in our forums..can we say these ideas to the vbulletin team and ask them for their help?
This help will be paid?

I would think the vB-team has more than enough work already.
But at this site there is a request forum, and a hack database. If you want some added functionality, try using the search features here and see if someone has already made it. If you can't find it, post a request and someone might just make it for you - maybe even for free.

If we try to make some private forums, how they appear?
I mean can we have forums that are for some members and in others account will not appear and others that will be with a password?

vBulletin has a very powerfull system for administrating who can see what forums. I will not try to explain this here, but it should not be a problem to accomplish anything you want. The current version does not support password protecting forums other thru the user-login.
You can give access to private forums to whole usergroups, or to one and one user with access masks.