If you're having this much trouble just installing the forum, you're probably not going to have much luck customizing it the way you want. 
I am curious though (I own PunBB-Hosting), what customization do you want that isn't possible?
1,651 2007-12-14 23:32
Re: help (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
1,652 2007-12-14 22:32
Re: help (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Then you might be better off using a service to host the forum for you so you don't have to worry about any of that
1,653 2007-12-14 22:07
Re: HELP! Something really strange with the sorting of userlist and search (9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
No, you have to run an alter table command for each one
1,654 2007-12-14 22:07
Re: Wrong topic in url redirect forum (5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Try this
FIND
// Is this a redirect forum?
if ($cur_forum['redirect_url'] != '')
{
$forum_field = '<h3><a href="'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['redirect_url']).'" title="'.$lang_index['Link to'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['redirect_url']).'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['forum_name']).'</a></h3>';
$num_topics = $num_posts = ' ';
$item_status = 'iredirect';
$icon_text = $lang_common['Redirect icon'];
$icon_type = 'icon';
}REPLACE WITH
// Is this a redirect forum?
if ($cur_forum['redirect_url'] != '')
{
$forum_field = '<h3><a href="'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['redirect_url']).'" title="'.$lang_index['Link to'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['redirect_url']).'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['forum_name']).'</a></h3>';
$num_topics = $num_posts = ' ';
$item_status = 'iredirect';
$icon_text = $lang_common['Redirect icon'];
$icon_type = 'icon';
$l_post = '';
}1,655 2007-12-14 22:04
Re: PunBB 1.3 - Bug in function (5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 bug reports)
Closed
1,656 2007-12-14 11:33
Re: Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare... (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Paste your code, it sounds like you modified something wrong
1,657 2007-12-14 11:32
Re: HELP! Something really strange with the sorting of userlist and search (9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
utf8_general_ci
1,658 2007-12-14 11:32
Re: Wrong topic in url redirect forum (5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
You'll need to post your code, since again it looks like you've edited it quite a bit
1,659 2007-12-14 02:42
Re: BB Code Question (2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
There is no way to do that with BBCode
1,660 2007-12-14 00:25
Re: An update (124 replies, posted in News)
Well, it's a good thing PunBB isn't meant to compete with phpBB then! 
1,661 2007-12-13 23:54
Re: New reply in specific topic shows as previous poster (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Wow, what an unexpected issue
if ($cur_post['g_id'] == 1)
/* $rank_icons = '<img style="border:0;" src="img/'.$pun_user['style'].'/ranks/rank_1.png" title="'.$lang_common['Administrator'].'" alt="'.$lang_common['Administrator'].'" />';
else if ($cur_post['g_id'] == 2)
$rank_icons = '<img style="border:0;" src="img/'.$pun_user['style'].'/ranks/rank_2.png" title="'.$lang_common['Moderator'].'" alt="'.$lang_common['Moderator'].'" />';
else if ($img_size = @getimagesize(FORUM_ROOT.'/img/'.$pun_user['style'].'/ranks/rank_'.$cur_post['g_id'].'.png'))
$rank_icons = '<img style="border:0;" src="img/'.$pun_user['style'].'/ranks/rank_'.$cur_post['g_id'].'.png" alt="" />';
else $rank_icons = '<img style="border:0;" src="img/'.$pun_user['style'].'/ranks/stars_'.$num_ranks.'.png" title="'.$lang_common['Ranks'].'" alt="'.$lang_common['Ranks'].'" />'; */
$username = '<a href="profile.php?id=' . $cur_post['poster_id'] . '"><span style="color:'.$cur_post['g_color'].'">' . pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_post['username']) . '</span></a>';Notice how you used /**/ to comment out most of that? Well, since you did, the if statement at the top is affecting $username. Either uncomment the code or comment out that top if statement with the rest of the code.
1,662 2007-12-13 23:30
Re: PunBB 1.2.16 (71 replies, posted in News)
Yeah, you might as well so you remember what version you're running 
1,663 2007-12-13 20:19
Re: HELP! Something really strange with the sorting of userlist and search (9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Run the following query
show table statusand paste the results
1,664 2007-12-13 19:34
Re: Problems with HTTP_REFERER. (1 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
1,665 2007-12-13 16:25
Re: New reply in specific topic shows as previous poster (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
viewtopic.php to start
1,666 2007-12-13 15:21
Re: New reply in specific topic shows as previous poster (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
You'll need to post your code, since it looks like you have modified it quite a bit
1,667 2007-12-13 11:07
Re: HELP! Something really strange with the sorting of userlist and search (9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Sounds like you changed the users table to have a case sensitive collation.
1,668 2007-12-12 23:35
Re: Connection to host localhost is broken. (14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Oh. Yes, it's very possible: I thought you were referring to how certain programs were configured
1,669 2007-12-12 23:22
Re: Connection to host localhost is broken. (14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
...then what were you talking about?
1,670 2007-12-12 23:18
Re: Connection to host localhost is broken. (14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Err, Matt, what's wrong with that ./configure?
1,671 2007-12-12 21:19
Re: Re-installing arcade (2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Database tables
1,672 2007-12-12 21:04
Re: PunBB 1.2.16 (71 replies, posted in News)
Run the update script in the extras folder.
1,673 2007-12-12 19:48
Re: Question about 1.3 (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
The links are slightly broken at the moment I think, since Paul is in the middle of a lot of HTML/CSS reworking
1,674 2007-12-12 18:10
Re: Export without access to database (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Nope, sorry
1,675 2007-12-12 18:03
Re: Export without access to database (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
I don't think it's my service, since I allow people to grab database backups as often as they wish whenever they wish
Although the thought did occur to me when ads were mentioned