Year-long customer needs help

I've been using vBSEO for a year now and have had great results but wanted to get some help on something.

I currently have a .htaccess file in both the site root and the forum dir "/forum". I have the sitemaps in "/forum/vbseo_sitemaps". Below is what I have for the htaccess files and my robots file. Could you guys please help me streamline these and make sure I'm not having anything conflict? FYI, I have vBAdvanced setup as well.

I also have both my .com and .com/forum submitted to Google Webmaster tools for sitemaps and the .com keeps giving errors and I'm assuming that's due to me having things setup wrong.

Domain root htaccess file...

Code:

#Options All -Indexes

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</LIMIT>  

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.cyclonefanatic\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Forum htaccess file...

Code:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
    SecFilterEngine Off
    SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
#RewriteBase

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.cyclonefanatic\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

Root robots.txt file...

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/admincp/
Disallow: /forum/attachments/
Disallow: /forum/attachment.php
Disallow: /forum/calendar.php?do=add
Disallow: /forum/cron.php
Disallow: /forum/editpost.php
Disallow: /forum/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forum/login.php
Disallow: /forum/modcp/
Disallow: /forum/moderator.php
Disallow: /forum/newreply.php
Disallow: /forum/newthread.php
Disallow: /forum/online.php
Disallow: /forum/payments.php
Disallow: /forum/postings.php
Disallow: /forum/printthread.php
Disallow: /forum/private.php
Disallow: /forum/profile.php
Disallow: /forum/register.php
Disallow: /forum/report.php
Disallow: /forum/reputation.php
Disallow: /forum/sendtofriend.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forum/showpost.php
Disallow: /forum/subscription.php
Disallow: /forum/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forum/usercp.php
Disallow: /forum/vbookie.php
Disallow: /forum/vaispy.php
Disallow: /forum/tags/

Hello,

vBSEO only requires .htaccess file in forums folder (not in domain root). Sitemap is also accessed in forums folder: http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz
You can move sitemap to domain root as described in Sitemap:FAQ - VBSEO Wiki

So am I correct in saying that everything is fully functional and non-conflicting as it currently sits?

Thanks!

It seems to be fine for me. Although you would probably prefer to index your tags pages, currently they are excluded:

Disallow: /forum/tags/