Forums Reading from Same Database?

The forum software uses application variables for settings that are not often chaged in the admin section to cut down on database calls.

If you are using two sepparate forums on the same site then they will use the same application variables.

What you will need to do is either run one of the forums in it's own web (i.e. in a sub domain), that way it will run in it's own application thus application level versiables will remain untouched by the other installation.

OR

Turn off application level variables by editing the main common.asp file and setting the following variable to false to turn off the use of application variables in each forum:-

blnUseApplicationVariables = true

You will also need to disable the use of the active users table from the admin area as this also uses application level variables.