Sounds like good stuff... I have a friend's forum with >100k posts to give it a shot on when you are ready
I am convinced a lot of the problems are server-setup related... they are on a dedicated p3 1ghz/ 512mb ram/ and 15k rpm scsi drives and it still takes 3-4 seconds to generate a postlist page.
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