Ok after help from Justin (thanks!) We've finally gone live with this.

Here is url to our site: http://www.track-club.com

and to the forum directly http://www.track-club.com/cgi-bin/forum/blah.pl?

The reason I've included a link to our main site is that our home page shows some stuff you can do to integrate the forum into your site; The news items are coming from the news script and the upcoming events are read straight out of the eBlah calendar data.

We're also using the eBlah calendar to give us our busy data for when people book cars

We've taken the existing message code and made a copy that provides the read only version that appears in our fleet information pages

Basically we've done quite a lot of playing around to really try and take advantage of what I think is quite possibly the best free software I've met so far

If any one is in the least bit interested about how some of these things were done I'm happy to answer questions. I do have a VBScript wrapper that allows you to parse the Calendar data for example...

I actually like the colors and icons.

The site doesn't fully render correctly in FF.  IE7 works fine though.  

The character set is wrong here: http://www.track-club.com/termsAndConditions.asp

I like how you've integrated everything too.  

Justin - many thanks, what's happening in FF? In "theory" at least this is all done using CSS and no browser specifics but I've not got enough machinery around to check it so the design has basically been checked in IE6 and upwards in "Non-quirks" mode.

Ah found the problems! Slight disagreement between CSS - my brain and IE. Fixing now.