I also forgot to mention that my site used to run on phpBB since it first opened in July 2004. We have gone from some real scary designs:
The ORIGINAL GridironFans.....scary!
And went through a nightmare with with IntegraMod portal for phpBB. (If anyone ever suggests IntegraMod, just run....don't look back). Eventually we went back to a stock phpBB board with a custom wordpress-style front page. The front page was great, but the forum was a mess thanks to the sloppy code. I finally decided to jump in and get vBulletin recently and have not looked back. I am amazed at how easy it is to work (outside of the permissions which I am still trying to learn, you need to set a permission for everything it seems) and I guess I am also battle tested from dealing with phpbb for years. This new site is my first effort with vBulletin and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.
Thank you for the review!