OK I've re-opened the forum after the minor forum upgrade
One of the new features should have been a quick reply box at the bottom of each thread, but despite enabling it and double checking my changes, I can't get it to appear currently, so I wil continue to look into it.
There is also a much improved Captcha system for newly registering users, which should help cut down more spam registrations, and a new RSS feed which I have currently set to be from all forums. How useful this is, I am not sure, but I'll see how it goes .
One by product seems to have been the re-alignment of the top header bar, at least for me in IE8 which has bugged me for some while, so an unexpected bonus I guess.
Any other probs / issues, report them here and I'll get them looked into