Today I have added friendly URL's to the forums. This will make it easier for search engines to pick up topics that are posted. In addition, it makes things a little cleaner so that the url is more descriptive for you. The forums appear to be functioning properly, however if you notice any issues with anything on the forums that is possibly due to the Search Engine Friendly URLs, feel free to let me know.

Has it helped the site that much?

Yes, I have noticed that google and yahoo have both been crawling the website a ton since I changed the URLs...so it has helped the search engines in indexing the website.

Also, it is a little nicer to look at the url now, especially when you copy and paste it somewhere...it isn't just a ton of numbers...it has a little bit of description added to it.