side track but yeah the site has bad searching but V bullitin costs money and this ones probably free. PHPBB is what i ended up with for my forum and it didn't look as nice as this one.
still side track. how much does Vbullitin cost these days? i just looked and you can convert SMF to vbullitin.
edit just looked it up... its $195 to buy. apparently cheaper to lease but that wouldn't make good sense. fund raiser?