Purchase of Vbulletin and future development
 

Hello.
I'm interested in vbulletin, I haven't seen a demo for it yet for the admin side.. Most of the sites I have constructed in times gone by have been with Joomla 1.5 with Jfusion and SMF which has always produced good results, but I'm looking for something more integrated. The features of promoting a forum post to a topic or a blog post is something I find very appealing, but I still have a few questions.

Firstly, all the templates/skins I have found for vBulletin all seem to have the same generic layout, is it possible to totally change the site layout, ie similar to dropping in a new Joomla template easily? If so can anyone provide a link to a vBulletin site that does not follow the default layout of vBulletin? By this I mean not just a change of colours, but a total layout change from the title bar etc.

Secondly, I am interested to know what general sort of features the dev's are looking to add into the future, I am not after specifics just a general idea of what the roadmap may hold. Something I would love to see added is a current mood or status line similar to facebook or MSN messenger..

Any info anyone can provide would be great.