JADM

Not really, but some of the members and staff here have pointed out that I should change welcome message to an image. I had vaguely heard of this before, but hadn't given it a ton of thought...Actually, I figured I would "get around to doing that after I bought vBSEO." Well, coincidently, I used a tool I found at Link Vendor SE Spider Crawl .
It allows you to see what the SEs see when they crawl your page...holy bad SEO.

This is what they saw on mine:
"Physical Evaluation Board Forum User Name Remember Me? Password Register FAQ Members List Calendar PEB Tools Go to Page... PEB Tools PEB Benefits Calculator VA Rates 2008 Welcome to the Physical Evaluation Board Forum forums. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us."

My keyword "Physical Evaluation Board" had a density of 2.4% and this is the first thing the SE sees. Wow! Definitely going to have to fix this.

I have been trying to figure out how to have a better SEOd portal page. It seems to me that vbullettin layout may be flawed for trying to get traffic to forumhome.

Also, now I want to work on skin, but don't really know where to look. The free ones don't fit with my header image/logo. I just don't know where to look to find good quality custom work.

I really appreciate the time everyone has put in to giving me advice/critiques.

BTW, I changed my RRs. I inserted a H2 tag inside, and took out the template mod h2 tag I had before. I also put a RR in the footer. I don't have enough data to be able to track how this will effect the SEs view of my pages, but I figured I would try it.

One thing about my niche...it is really a niche. There are hardly any websites that mention Physical Evaluation Boards, and none except mine that are non-government site and focus soley on this niche. So, unless I screw this up badly, I feel confident of being able to "own" this niche...just have to be patient.