Go to Admin > Board Settings, there it is.

I shall find time for this tomorrow so if you let me help you, I'm sure we'll find solution.

What conversion are you talking about? HTML to ASPX is 1:1 conversion.

Why do you post it in YAF issues & bugs is beyond me

You're not the first one who reports difficulty setting up YAF in subfolder. I'll look into it when I got some time to spare.

FP:Ederon

Not out of box. You'd have to look at pages/posts.aspx(.cs) and do the trick there. Look where those buttons are enabled/disabled. Enable them for guest user and rest should do on its own.

Sure, just alter counting mechanism to actually count moved topics. That is, topics with TopicMovedID other than NULL. You'll easily recognize code needed to change in SPs (I described above).

AFAIK categories containing no public forum is hidden. Just mark all forums within category "hide if no access" and those with no rights won't see it.

IIRC, there are just following places where posts are counted.

1. when message is posted (on its approval, which can be automatic when forum is not moderated)
   
2. when post is moved
   
3. when topic is moved
   

Moved topics are not counted IIRC, even when they leave pointer behind.

Sure. I'd just separate them completely from blog/news posting. That's all. So forum at forum.yoursite.com and blog entries displayed on www.yoursite.com.

If you want those "Site News" appear only on home page, then why putting them into forums anyway? Blog might be more appropriate solution here.

Whether to put forum on subdomain or not is more matter of taste then anything. I'd choose subdomain myself.