[chrishajer]

I think you left off the trailing “[space] dot” that indicates “put it in the current directory” or path. From the svn help:

If PATH is omitted, the basename of the URL will be

used as the destination.

 

That means it creates “trunk” for you, which you don’t want.

Just delete the trunk directory and cd into the forum directory again, and run this whole thing:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ .

There is a / then a [space] then a period at the end there. That will put it into the current directory with no trunk directory being created.