The layout should be ok unless there's an issue with the style. I'd need to see it to find out. There's still some old code in there and it's possible a tbopen or tbclose was used without the proper corresponding tag.
You create links to it either in your overall site navigation, or in your forum's topnav template - that would be up to you to decide
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