Best Forum Software - Specifically for Integrating and Using with Studiopress/WP

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I truly value this forum and the help I receive from here. I am starting my question here because everyone I have met here has given me top notch advice and support and you are all smarter than me with Wordpress ;-)

So I am about to get a great new big client that is involving an in depth website build. There will be a lot of functionality and moving pieces to the website.

Think this: http://www.snowestonline.com/forum/ just different Niche. So we like a lot of what that site has but I want to build it in wordpress and I am wondering about a forum?

is V Bulletin the recommended Forum for big time users and easy monetization or is there other ones that are better and I just don't know about.

So far from my Research Mingle seems to be the best choice for using with Wordpress and it has a lot of great features we can utilize and it is fully integrated with Wordpress which I really like.

So what would be your recommendation on a Forum to use for this sort of project???

Also do the Wordpress Plugins for SEO purposes and other plugins work with a Forum? I suppose they would if the Forum is integrated into Wordpress such as Mingle is.

I appreciate any advice and help you can lend.

- Kyle