Originally Posted by ULTiMATE A forum script that works just as well as vBulletin and has a lot of the nice features vB has through mods for free.

I find it funny that you praise another forum script for having a lot of nice features, but yet you denounce vB, "the features weighed it down a lot". I guess the features dont weigh it down, they just arent the features that you choose to utilize.
And, you say you are going to be purchasing a peice of forum software regardless.. SMF is free
My #1 choice would still be vb, hands down.