[MindTrix]

1. There are too many to list mate Basically you get official prompt support, a huge site here of hacks, and then another huge site full of template mods and so much more performance wise. I used to run PHPBB and i havent looked back since

2.Very easy to make templates, you simply click a button called ADD and you can create a new one, Everything you see on the forum, you can customise in the admin cp.Also installing someone elses template mod's or Hacks is easy too. Each come with a step by step guide, and if you run in too trouble you meerly have to post stating what is wrong and you have about 5 people pounce on you too help

3.I believe there is a converter yes.