Macman,
I wish you luck in your forum endeavors. One word of advice, it might be worth it to spend the $5 a month to get away from a free hosted, pop-up laden message board. I went to your board, and left after I had to close 3 pop-ups. They are extremely annoying, and they actually serve you no purpose. If you are gonna have pop-ups, at least make sure you are making something off of them. In your case, the people making the money are the ones that are gonna drive your users away. There is free board software out there, and all you need is a $5 a month hosting account to host it. That is my advice.
If you want, I can set you up with a $5 account on my server, with more than enough space and bandwidth to keep you going for a while. Let me know if you are interested.
Good luck to you....