Using vB as a CMS?

[Adan0s]

Hi there,

i'm currently looking for something like an Forum-CMS. and as here are most of the guys which knew everything about vBulletin i thought i might ask some things here.

is there already a mod/plugin or are there plugins which can be used together to provide following features for the mainsite:

• create news/article categories
• read news from a forum to the mainsite together with an assigned category
• read articles from a forum together with an assigned category
• user should be able to assign categories in the specific forums.
• some kind of downloadbase with the possibilty to create main- and subcategories (a option to submit downloads for users should be there but not necessary)
• creating menu's with links to the different article-pages should be easily possible

well, to make it more clear what i really want:

i want to create a site which reads (almost) all of it contents from the forum. user xy should be able to create a thread in a special newsforum and assign a newscat to it which then gets approved by an admin. if it is approved the news should be shown on the frontpage together with the assigned category (cat-images should also be possible).
the same procedure should be with articles but for them it would be the best to have a content-forum with subforums for the content-categories.
the system then should create a link to the content-categories that shows a overview of the created articles.
the articles itself shouldn't show the posted comments but a link to it.

i know that's not that hard to write it for myself but i really don't want to hack anything into the vB-core as the system should be updateable at any point.

i also know that i demand a lot but since i know that there are atleast 2 systems which provide (almost) exactly those functions for phpBB2 i thought there may be similiar mods/plugins for vBulletin.
(well i could also just use those phpBB2-systems but to be honest..i don't like that forum and it's really old)

best regards,
Sven

(if some things are unclear please ask. i'm not a native english speaker.)