Hey all, I have just read the whole thread and mod that a coder from vBulletin have just released yesterday and it just looks too amazing!!! He has chosen Drupal vs. all other cms programs and I am just so happy and proud!
The 3.5 extensions for vBulletin 3.5 Gold is called: vB Drupal: Community Plumbing (CMS + Blogs) and totally merges all of the drupal possibilites with the new vBulletin stuff. Imagine the wonders of what Drupal offers with the greatness of the forum posting and user options offered with vBulletin. This was just totally amazing when I heard about it, best of all it was just released yesterday!
Here is a brief explanation of what the Extension offers:
This is not just a "bridge". vBulletin and Drupal share the same user base, login, sessions, user groups, permissions and custom profile fields, style and theme. You have the option to use Drupal's comment system, or use vBulletin for comments, and announcing new content automatically (with links, teasers, of full content). You can allow user groups to have their own blogs, publish stories, collaborate on handbooks and manuals, and contribnute content, with various levels of permissions and revision control. No special accounts need to be created, all done by usergroups and roles.
You can install it in any directory on your server, above, or below your forum. You can even run it on a different subdomain.