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personally, i can't stand the default way that phpbb appears in xoops. it's set to use the phpbb theme within the XOOPS theme, which makes it look standalone yet smushed, lol...
what we did, was edit the header/footer templates in phpbb, edit our theme, setup the theme where side blocks do *not* appear when the forum is being viewed (so that it can used as much of the screen as necessary), and yet it's setup to use the XOOPS theme and maintain the same appearance.
so, it's integrated, not smushed, and looks fairly smooth imho. for some areas of the phpbb theme that need css structuring, we just added the needed css specifications to the XOOPS theme css file.
if you would like my modified phpbb module, let me know. i upped the phpbb module to support XOOPS 2.0.7 (the 2.0.7 package on bbpixel was added by me
), and then i modified from there.
oh, and for people to still be able to navigate to the site home, we created a center block to sit over the phpbb module, that has links to home, forums, gallery, etc etc (forums is linked, because the same block is used across forums, gallery, and a few other modules that we like to display with 0 side blocks)
i can also show you what modifications were needed for the XOOPS theme.