After installing no way would it work, I couldn't find any relevant Q's or A's in this forum so me and my programming buddy fixed it ourselves - heres how

PROBLEM 1. The install script itself falls over because it tries to UPDATE table #_fb_categories before it's been created!

FIX 1 run the actual admin entrypoint script with a task=installfb parameter, like this (replace felixvs/jdev/ with your own development path)

felixvs/jdev/administrator/index.php?option=com_fireboard&task=installfb

PROBLEM 2. In the back end, trying to create a forum is impossible because it falls over - this time due to a very silly mistake in admin.fireboard.php on line 460 where a define (_FB_TOPLEVEL) is used but enclosed within quotes so its not picked up as a define!

FIX 2. First you'll need to make the script writable, then correct the line - remembering not only to unquote the _FP_TOPLEVEL define but to also make sure that the text it expands to gets quoted in the query. Really - you don't want to do this if you don't get where i'm coming from - faint hearted programmers be warned

PROBLEM and FIX 3. Now you will need to create a Top LEvel Category in the #_fb_categories table - it needs a parent id of 0. You'll only need to give values to the parent id (i said that) and the name and a description - make sure its published tho'

PROBLEM and FIX 4. Finally, I had some issues with left-over remnants of the demo data, if you are unlucky enough to have played with this and then removed it you will have to remove what it left behind!
Specifically you need to flush the #_fb_messages and #_fb_messages_text tables.

Then you can create a forum in the back end, under Top Level Category that SHOULD show up in the front end, personally I got a bit 'hacky' at this point so I'm not certain whether it worked from the back end or whether I had to fix-up the row for the forum in the #_fb_catagories table.

Just make sure that your new forum has the id of Top Level Category (should be 1) as its parent id and things should beok...

Now things should be looking like they're working...

EXCEPT - don't do anything to the smileys in the back end! Thats another problem but for me its CBA.

GOOD LUCK!