The forum links may be outranking your site because the forum itself has a good "quality score". If you want your page rankings to increase you're going to have to get more backlinks from other quality websites in your niche. The best "vote" for your site (according to the search engines) is an inbound link from another heavily trafficked site related to yours.
Forums, digg, stumbleupon, etc. are good but what the search engines really want to see is other people voluntarily linking to your site without you linking back because that says to them that your site must be pretty useful and relevant for your topic if other popular sites give you a free link.
And that just comes down to providing the best darn content in your niche to get other people's attention. But the fact you have moved to the 2nd page is a good thing. Keep working hard and you'll eventually move up.
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