Need to brag a bit
Since I had some problems with the forums in Nuke and I wanted to install some mods too and some won't work since the pages were not there (they are not identical to the simple phpBB ones since the forums have been modded for Nuke) I thought why not disable Nuke forums and get the community in a separate folder.

Well .. took me around 10 hours for everything, but it's all set and working. I wouldn't advise people to make this change unless they have the patience to do so.

I have successfully moved the data from nukebb_ to phpbb and haven't lost postcount and member details. It was very difficult, but I don't regret it at all.

I'm not able to offer a tut right now since I have to search again through all the resources I have read in order to do so, but it would be a good idea.

The new forums is looking like THIS

thank you for listening to my rant Hope I haven't bored you too much

New Forums look nice

Let me tell you the entire saga, so that you have what to laugh about:

So I decide to move to phpBB standalone. I go and read something (BTW not many things about it) .. this site has again helped. And the phpBB community articles too.

So ... I empty the phpBB tables I need to in the fresh system and mod the nukebb_ tables to fit the new extension. Not hard anyway ...

BUT ... since my connection was crappy I had to submit the queries part bu part ... not too many since it wouldn;t make the changes. After 2 hours of populating the phpBB_users and phpbb_post and post texts I managed to have the posts and members sent to the new DB. Well, I was proud.

After that I saw I was MODERATOR on my forum, although I have installed and had amdin privileges. I find out Nuke was incrementing the numbers. For phpBB annonymous is -1, user is 0, admin is 1 and mod is 2. Since Nuke made everything bigger with one I was MODERATOR on my forums and ALL members were ADMINS

So ... took me some time to get the permissions rigth ASAP and since I was too lazy to look for the script I manually updated the permissions in phpmyadmin.

Started the modding at 18 in the evening and finished at 4 in the morning

Gonna tell you more ..