thread and header image thumnails hack ?

[the123d]

Hello

I'm currently using phpBB for my forum, but I'm finding it somewhat limited in comparison with my requirements. I'd like to ask if Vbulletin is capable of the following features:

My site is about digital art. I want to create a image gallery forum. In order to make this work I would like each of the threads in the gallery to have a small thumnail image next to it.
The second feature (and this is where things get complicated maybe !?) I would like the overall header of all the other forums to show larger thumbnails of the latest images in the images gallery forum !

There's an existing forum that uses the same kind of features - see the following URLs:
http://www.cgtalk.com
http://www.cgtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=132

Are there existing vbulletin hacks that can be used, or is this something that needs to be custom created by a programmer ?

any tips would be welcome