[John James Jacoby]

This does appear indeed to be an integration issue. When I remove the inclusion of the wp-blog-header.php in the bb-config.php, everything comes back just fine and I am able to edit/reorder/delete forums.

This seems to be the same issue causing most of my grief, somehow my capabilities and roles are totally out of alignment, or rather they may have never really been in total alignment in the first place.