[BrandonC]

I think you may have answered a different question than I asked....I probably didn't type it out clearly enough (I've been puzzling over this for a while).

I have Artists created as a category. I also have A, B, C, etc created as categories. I'm now adding the forums for individual artists, so that when you click on the A category, you'll see:

A Perfect Circle
AFI
Aerosmith
Amos, Tori
all the other A groups

I've scripted the creation of all the artist forums in the DB so I don't have to do it all by hand.

What I'd like to be able to set up is a sort so that when someone makes a post in the Amos, Tori forum, the list of forums in the A category will appear like this:
Amos, Tori
A Perfect Circle
AFI
Aerosmith
all the other A groups

....and then the forums list will keep updating based on posts in the forum, just like the threads list does. When you make a post in a thread on page 4 of a forum, it will come to page 1. I'd like to make it so that if you make a post in an artist's forum on page 3 of the artist list, it will come to the top of the artist forums list.

Does that make sense at all, or have I been staring at the computer for too long?