Nevermind I figured it out:

Visit timeout       : 1 second
Online timeout : 0 seconds

Works as long as you don't care about "users online"

I don't like how newly posted topics get the "[ New Posts ]" tag attached to them. Is there a way I can disable this? Thanks.

On 1.2.12, it says I have the wrong version so I can't install it.

Done and done:

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$  viewforum.php?id=2  [R]

Guardian: I don't see why not!
That would be very easy. I'll try it out.

I don't know if this is really the solution because extern just gives unformatted text. I'm talking about the forum listing of fid #2 to show up in the main index.

I installed my forum in the /forum directory and it loads fine. I created one category and one forum that goes to /forum/viewforum.php?id=2

But I'm only going to have one forum, so I'd like the default forum topics to view when anyone loads up my forum, instead of having to click the forum name to view topics. So basically i want the topics from the default forum to show up in /forum instead of /forum/viewforum.php?id=2. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.