Including global.php when forum set to not active.

[pjclas]

I've been doing some testing in preparation for moving from SMF to vBulletin and I noticed something strange. I include global.php in various files to access the vbulletin apis and that all works fine normally. If I then go into the forum admin and set the forum to not active, suddenly the pages that include global.php no longer render any content at all. The first thing I do is include global.php in those php files. If I comment it out, the files render fine. I do not get any errors or exceptions, it just seems to fail.

Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would like to be able to turn off the forum without having to worry about crashing my whole site.

EDIT: I just tried this again, and strangely this time I'm seeing "Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error."