Okay my multi duplicate forum/one board dilemma

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Some may have seen my posts back along. I want to create my first message board using vbulletin. License purchased, so here we go.

Issue - one message board, 50 initial categories all containing duplicate forums. Solution needed - to avoid typing up and creating all 50 versions of the same thing.

From all my research, I think the easiest thing would be for me to create the first category and forums.. copy it and upload it as category 2 into another folder on my server. Then I would edit whatever bit tells it which database to use so that it uses the same database as category 1. Rinse and repeat 50 times.

I would then have already created my message board front page with the links to my 50 categories. These links would be URL's to my 50 categories. Thus creating my one big board in a shorter period of time.

So it all sounds logical. Question is how EXACTLY! :P can I do this and what are the drawbacks and risks?

Thank guys and sorry for being quite so thick.