@Trevor.
Trust me. The Amiga community has been forced to use Xoops on all three of the "big" sites for so many years that most of you simply got overly comfortable with it.
Xoops is, and always was a very simplistic package which did a lot of things, but did absoluntely none of them very well at all. It -- like other CMS's of it's era -- tries to be too many things for too many people
Unfortunately Xoops is -- in no doubts -- a dying product, which means that some (like AW) might have to stick with their custom 1.x version forever while others will meet up with a dead end which drives them as batty as it did me.
vBulletin, which has been in production almost as long, is first, and foremost, a great forums package with features that Xoops has never even thought of. It also has a thriving community which has adapted it to do just about everything, meaning GREAT forum package, good at everything else.
You just have to give us some time to build it, and give it some time to grow on you to cover up the stank of what was Xoops.
Wayne