Will vBulletin fit my needs?

[jamestl2]

Hello everyone, this is my first post, (I already posted this at vBulletin.com, and they directed me here)

I recently decided to add forums to my Wordpress blog and was wondering if it was possible to somehow style it after my wordpress structure?

For example on my site, I have categories such as advice and humor, and posts within them. What I would like to have in my forums is a similar hierarchy, with my wordpress categories being different boards, and my wordpress posts being threads, where members can discuss what I wrote (and probably disabling blog comments in the process).

I don’t want to duplicate the content from my blog into my first post, I would prefer the first post to say something like “Discuss this post here” or something.

I currently had another version of forums installed, however they weren’t meeting my standards, and I’m not a programming, PHP expert.

I also have registered users with my blog, and could they integrate registry with my forums, so they wouldn't have to register twice. In other words, are these user integrations very flexible?

Also, is there some sort of program or plugin that could automate this process, where every time I make a blog post, a new thread would be created in the appropriate board? (I already have about 40 posts on my site, which I would like threads for, in addition to new ones.) Where is the link (if this type of programming exists)?

Hope this is being clear
Thanks