Thanks Andrew, wouldn't have been possible without you.
Hey, maybe you want to try and tackle this other idea I had, maybe not.
A checkbox to the right of a threads title when you're creating a new thread. The checkbox, if checked, disabled/Hides EVERYTHING other then the Submit New Thread button.
The purpose of the checkbox would be to turn the title of the new thread into a link. So for example, if in the title I made it
www.eirma.org, in the Forum Display, it would get a different statusicon, and the title would be parsed as <a href, etc...
Essentially allowing any forum to have links embedded amongst the threads. An edit button would have to be added because you wouldn't be able to go inside the thread to edit it, since the link went off-site. Maybe even add an extra column to the forumdisplay for click tracking. Put dashes in the Replies and Views columns, or maybe change Views to Views/Clicks and track it that way.