I feel bad for her. lol. I just got done manually importing over 2,500. I found a way to do it quick though, at about 44 forums in 3 minutes. I would bypass the loading & refreshing. I'll probably create a tutorial on how I was doing it... unless that's not quick by most standards.
We used Impex to import the forums and it actually went rather quick. Then I taught her how to delete some of the forums via phpmyadmin and put in prefixes instead.