vbulletin

vBulletin guys are good. If you have a legit license and it expires, they'll notice. If you have an illegit license and don't remove every single reference that it's vBulletin, they'll find it in Google rather quickly. I'd just stick with a heavily modded phpBB. While nothing will quite match the raw power of the vBulletin Admin CP, phpBB can be a quite powerful forum when configured properly.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Also PHPBB Is Never Respectable, It has TONS of Crashes and Ive never got it to work like I wanted it too. :/

As previously said, then you must just suck at the Internet. I've been running a phpBB install for just over a year now (Server's on a LAN, not the full Internet, but it still takes a load of about 60 regular users). Used it 100% as a Testbed instead of a Production-style machine - I've probably installed more than 150 mods at one time or another, I've upgraded from 2.0.12 through 2.0.20, manually edited various files to see how they responded, etc. and I have NEVER had phpBB crash except when it was my fault (such as adding custom code and not closing a bracket).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I prefer vBulletin and phpBB myself. IPB is great, but I haven't used it enough to be comfortable with it yet (specifically, I've never Admined it). SMF I just plain don't like the feel of. I'm sure it can be great, but I genuinely dislike it personally.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.