Haven't played with 5.0 specifically yet... but do use the existing version.
5 may be a little different (alot different) and have WAY more features.... but:
in 4.3 you can choose to pull the "news" posts from up to 3 forums... and select the number of posts to display. So you don't have to have a separate forum. But it takes the first posts... and you can choose if it ignores "sticky" posts or not.
