This is a pain. I've been able to customize my forums just fine.
But CMS is more difficult and not intuitive at all whatsoever. I don't like the look of my blogs either.
I asked a guy at work who says he's a professional web developer and he said he'd do it but he hasn't gotten back to me.
So I made a request in the paid services forum and haven't heard anything from anyone yet.
This is what... around $300 that could've been better wasted in a strip club and I don't even go to strip clubs.
On top of that I discovered WebTemplates, which I should've downloaded and installed instead of buying CMS.
Oh well. You live and you learn.
/end rant.
I would like to open up my forum for the public and for review but my site feels incomplete without a main page which is why I bought the publishing suite in the first place.