OK, I had some luck today I'd like to share.
Here is a link that helped me:
I put the ASP sub code in my ASP page, and added the html snippet to call it where I want the forum entries to appear.
On the above page there is a link to download a news.xsl file - this translates the RSS format into an html compatible format, and is very similar to html. I am playing with this file now to get the forum data to appear the way I want it.
The only things to remember is to modify the path to news.xsl (or whatever you want to call it) so it points to this file which you need to upload to the forum directory, and to enter the URL to the rss_topic.asp page in the html snippet where you want the forum data to appear.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact me or post here, I'll do my best to share what I did to get to this point.
You can see the results on http://www.CommuterClub.org/