Hi Evrl
Welcome to the forum and thanks for the kind words. Setting up this forum is pretty easy as long as you understand the basics of FTP-ing files to your server. Vbulletin comes with instructions. There are also free ones you can try like
www.phpbb.com but of course it doesn't have as many bells and whistles as vbulleting.
Although, as I tell others who want to start a forum, don't do so until you have at least 500 (preferably 1,000) visitors per day. The reason being, it's very hard to build activity if your site doesn't have very much activity.