[chrishajer]

Search engines have no problems with 301 redirects.

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm

You could save this as your index.php and not have any trouble:

<?php

header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently", false, 301);

header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/forum.php");

exit();

?>

What are the reasons you don’t like redirects?