I set up a test server to give WU-United a try. Since the main developer has stopped, I was using a verison I found here:

http://www.nitemarecafe.com/2009/02/20/wp-united-061-rc-1-released/

After a false start and a failure to read directions I got it running. I was skeptical at first since it only used Wordpress, not WordpressMU, and that was a correct feeling.

While it does work, phpbb users get access to the blog, even a ‘personal’ blog, it is not the way I’d like. the way it works is that all blogs are just a part of one Wordpress blog, and the blogs are pulled out by designating which author (for example: blog.php/?author=3/) which is not a pretty solution.

Also, ALL blogs have to have one template. The fact that there really is only one blog makes this make sense, but alas, this is not what I want.

So close, very close, but not close enough. Same idea, but Wordpress MU and we’d have gold.