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Oh, that makes sense.

You don't have to reinstall punbb - just rename the tables.  The first step is to convert your punbb database so that each table has the 'punbb_' prefix.  Once that's done, install mambo's tables in that same database using 'mambo_' for their prefix.  (the punbb database data will be saved, but mambo's will be lost - you said this was ok).

Your punbb database probably looks like this:
users
posts
topics

and it needs to be:
punbb_users
punbb_posts
punbb_topics

Do you have access to your database via phpMyAdmin?  If so it's really easy to make changes without knowing what you're doing.  Go to the database, select the table 'users', click the 'operations' tab, under 'Rename table' change 'users' to 'punbb_users', click 'go'.  Repeat for each of the other punbb tables.  The whole procedure will only take a couple minutes.  When finished, go to your config.php file and add in the prefix.  If you aren't sure how to add it in, you could do a test install and see how the install file prints it - or ask someone here.  Once this is done your punbb database should work as before.  Next, just install mambo's tables in the same database using 'mambo_' for the prefix.

That's a cool feature, Paul.  Thanks.  (CSS sure is fun, isn't it?)

I found this thread while searching google for "registerfly support problems" (something like that).  You made the 2nd page I think - pretty good considering.  punBB is really moving up in the world.  Congrats.

Search Engine Optimization is the art of designing your site so that it gets the best possible rankings in search engines.  SEO includes everything from choosing the optimum domain name, what text goes in the title bar, what text goes in the description meta tag, the first visible text on the page, what links are found on the main page, etc, etc, etc.  SEO is a big deal, trust me.

I think in this case bryant might be talking about how to integrate the forum into a regular website (not necessarily a cms or gallery - any old site).  The common issues involved are having the forum code insert helpful text in the title bar on each page - actually it looks like punbb already does this.  Another good thing for SEO is to convert the urls from query strings to search-engine-friendly format.

Here's a discussion on SEO at the hiveminds forum:
(they're good folks even though they still use phpbb )
http://hiveminds.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2523

Just open a few files and experiment.

Thanks.  I wouldn't use it here - it's for a custom CMS I'm working on.

Typo3 is better than Mambo? 
Drupal is better than Mambo? 
I thought Mambo was the undisputed king of CMS portals.  I haven't used any of them but from reading around it sounded like Mambo was the one to use (as well as Nucleus, of course ).  Guess I'll have to add Typo3 and Drupal to my list.

P.S.
Bert, I read your reviews for punbb and nucleus at OSCMS last night.  You state a good case, and it's a good read.  I'm planning to try out nucleus and singapore on account of your suggestions.

I agree.  We already beat this one to death a few weeks ago.  If people need to debate the pros and cons of Private Messaging, it would make more sense to start a separate topic for it (imho).

How stable is 1.2.1?  It sounds like there were one or two things that needed fixing.  Does it all look good now?

I mucho like the addition of the breadcrumb trail at the bottom.  I never said anything about it before -- I just planned to add it myself.  Thankyou, thankyou, it's a good thing.

I don't notice the increase from 10px to 11px either.  It's still small.  I'm on Win-XP-home, Mozilla-1.5.  Why not just use ems instead of pxs?

LOL - that's what I use; works like a charm.  What you see is what you get everytime.