I agree. I have a vB license, too, but have not migrated our UBB forums to it. I'm reconsidering, as I prefer this simple, clean interface and know our members would also. The option to thread or not is also nice, but the integration with Links SQL would be a giant plus. PERL scares me, though, not that I know anything about PHP, but it seems intuitively easier to grasp, and I'm concerned about performance issues, as we're not on a dedicated server.
samantha