But don't worry about it I actually have a job unlike you louts so I can Buy Things.
Yoooo what a mean thing to say to someone struggling to find work. you're rude.
passworded forums seems like a pretty dumb feature to me. most forum software already has perfectly good (or at least functional) authentication and at least some form of RBACS so that takes care of that? I'm stupid but I can't think of a usecase where you'd need passworded forums on top of that unless you had people with different rights sharing accounts or you wanted restricted sections still useable only by certain anonymous people
i've had to do SMF integration before though and it's a poop so I know where you're coming from. if you have the money to spend on something better then lucky us!