What, specifically, would their additional abilities be? Changing the forum name seems about the only thing they can't currently do.

There isn't currently a system to do what you ask. Basically the next level is admin. I'm not how much this is needed... you could always implement it.

OK. So atleast I am not alone. Since I need this functionality, I will start writing it and share my results. However, I currently have 1.9.3 pulled down from SVN and am working on using the AD membership provider with the SQL Role Provider. I know it's off topic, but is anyone doing anything with that because if so, I will stop working with that and implement the changes for this.

Velox, that would only work for me if the people on the board could still see all the other forums on the other boards. I don't really want to break it into different boards. My problem is that this is an internal forum for a company and each category in the forum needs to be moderated by a specific group within the company and then there will be an overall moderator. There are currently only a small section of categories, but as this gets rolled out outside of the pilot group, if 1 or 2 people had to do maintenance of all the forums and subforms within all the categories it would be a nightmare. So i was hoping to have a level of privileges that would allow for 1 or 2 people to create the categories and then designate someone to be a Category Moderator or super moderator or whatever you want to call them for that newly created category and they could do what they wanted in that specific section.

I know this probably isn't what most people need or what, so i will be writing it if anyone else wants it later. I plan on doing it by adding a bunch more access flags, so maybe they will be integrated into the build anyway for more granular control, but if not, that's fine too. This product has been a lifesaver for me so i will gladly take it how it is and mold it into what i need.

Thanks for the suggestion though!