I've thought a bit about doing a blog, but I think it would have a lot different feel, those are kind of set up for one person to be sort of the primary poster.... A forum is kind of more freeform "anyone can post", kind of more conversational.

VBulletin seems to be ok, if I was forced to pick something different I would probably go for that.

But I really like the separate frame for thread list... :) I think it is kind of odd that other forums don't have it.

- Michael