Hello Will,

I heard back form Beth at Active Modules and hoping to get more details from her. My biggest concern is that to convince our client to do this migration, I have to make sure that they are not losing features they had before and hopefully gaining features. If the current forum is working for them and  their users, I don't want to make them change and not have their users like it :(

Thanks!

Having worked with both PhPBB and Active Forums, as well as a number of others, your client won't see any lost features.  They will find that features are different, moved or work in a different manner, but it's very easy to get used to.  The front-end customization can be done to match just about anything existing.

Now that I've said that, realize that there are quite a few add-ons to PhPBB and different mods for it, these may or may not affect your look and feel changes.  As for the conversion, it's really just database migration.  Personally I'd pay AF to do it, but any decent database admin could probably convert the data.

Jeff