I agree. I had really high hopes for this. I had one going that was, like I said, pretty cool, but I just couldn't integrate the UBB into it the way I wanted to. It had classifieds, auto-news, articles you could write in, links, etc. Setup in less than 5 minutes too.
Right now I'm using a script from ODP++ to run my web page's entry page and link to the UBB off that so I have a sort of portal type going.
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