For me it's not needed. I have installed on my phpBB site all hacks I need. I have an unique theme (customized one and recreated headers and tables). I am prepared to mod it once again since I have other ideas.

As for VB lookign proffesionaL? It's got one of the worst looking default skins even *IPB is more beautiful out of the box, not to mention a good admin has to mod and tweak the forums to make them stand out. Buying a 200 USD script and just installing it doesn't make the forums good or proffessional.

PhpBB is bad out of the box. But if you have some time on your hand and you're not afraind of some photoshopping and code change, then you have have some AWESOME results.

Not to mention VB COSTS a lot ...