Let me say it again, go to
www.digitalprinceton.net and your UBB will get a very warm welcome. Come on now, let's be honest. You can hack or modify either of them to look like what ever you want and the fact is that there are more diverse hacks for vB right now but I love my UBB and feel that I have a very unique site. I have always said that I prefered a database to flatfiles but my host likes UBB and I plan on being with them for a long time. I have other sites that are PHP and MySQL and I am open minded about a lot of products.