PHP/MySQL is all well and good. So’s tomcat+coldfusion+mod_jk, if we can get that working.

One thing you learn in this game … you’re never too far down the path to pull a 180. Right now we’re exploring several options. The most promising (because it doesn’t involve spending more money) is the one we’re working on, and on our test instance it seems like a really good idea, albeit with a couple of kinks we’re still working out. But if that path ends up not working out — if we run into prohibitive issues that lead to us deciding it’s infeasible, our next step would be to migrate to vbulletin, chucking coldfusion, jrun, and fusetalk like so much jetsam.