Questions before I purchase the license.

[mandy02]

I really want to buy VBulletin. But I need to make sure I have all of my questions answered before I take the plunge.

Right now I am running a forum on PHPBB3 3.06. It is heavily MOD'ed. The mods that are installed are mostly already prepackaged in VBulletin. That's what I like. But I have some questions.

1. I have a couple of MODs that I would have to do to VBulletin. I need a Thank You Hack and a Chat Hack. If install VBulletin and then add these hacks, it doesn't invalidate any support I'm paying for does it?

2. I read that you can use an importer tool to go from PHPBB3 to VBulletin. The fact that I have a heavily MOD'ed version of PHPBB3 should not render this impossible right?

3. I briefly read somewhere that you can only have one copy of VBulletin running if you only have one license. But then I read that you can have a "test forum" also. Does this mean I can have two copies of VBulletin? One live and one test? It's really important for me to have a test environment.

4. I was looking at the VBulletin Suite because I really like the idea of CMS. However, I noticed that there are Hacks to add a portal page that looks just like the CMS page? Is that the same thing? If so, can I just do the regular version of VBulletin and add the portal page?

5. If I do buy the regular version of VBulletin and decide I want the Suite instead, can I just pay the difference and get that? Or do I have to pay the full price for another license of the Suite product?

I know these are a lot of questions and I appreciate anyone that reads them. I have attempted to find these answers for myself. I'm not sure though. I want to be 100% sure before I purchase something.

Thanks!