I wasnt even planning on using vbulletin as part of it. it would be nice to have a shared user db, but that doesnt really matter.
do you mind if you at least show me the work you did.
another key would be to have easy uploads for files, which vb does have with attacthments. im going to look around more today for some other blog programs
i found this:
http://www.opensourceblog.com/
and blogger.com allows using their software on your own site.