Enabling mod_rewrite for a forum probably isn't the best of ideas. Unless you can properly set it up for every possible URL it might have.

I could see it working for the main forum subdivision, but any more than that and you'll quickly run into madness territory. I was thinking more of using it for the main page, since you don't really need the forums to be spider-friendly.

That would help for your side of things, as for the UI 'problems', that's a whole different issue that I don't have time to go into right now. I'll just say that there's way too many tabs in the top right corner, for starters.

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