I found a workaround for this that will do above for me and I thought I might share it with others.
I have vbadvanced cpms 2.10 installed on vb 3.5.3.
So I created a new page on the cpms with only a modified version of the forumlist module
I changed the module it so that it goes to a new thread page for each forum instead of listing the forum threads.
Example
http://www.gcn.ie/forum/cmps_index.php?page=newthread