just when i'm setting up yabb and ib, there's another forum script to chose from....

i really like your layout and that i haven't seen avatars. never really understood why that needed to be in a forum, chat ok, but not forums.

questions:
is it possible to set up more than one group of forums from the same script?

when someone posts a new post, can they chose whether to have it read only, reply or whatever - so people are forced to reply as indicated in their post (pm, email, phone etc)? or can this only be set up from forum to forum?

any way i can get a beta copy to set up and test? any idea what the pricing will be?