vbulletin isn't expensive at all, and it is way faster. Please consider it?

 

You don't know what you're talking about (respectfully). If you read this forum and the front page you will know we are working on the systems and that is why they are slow. Only 1 of our 3 web servers is currently online and functioning right now. The site will be slower than it should be for much of October as we migrate to the 5th revision of the site.